The Meet al-Attar shooting was a mass shooting that occurred in Meet al-Attar (Arabic: ميت العطار‎‎) a village near Banha, Egypt on August 21, 2013, when Omar Abdul Razeq Abdullah Rifai (Arabic: عمر عبد الرازق عبد الله الرفاعي‎‎), a 28-year-old unemployed poultry dealer and ex-convict who was recently released from his sentence after he killed 23 people in 2008 over a family feud, fatally shot 15 people and possibly wounded several others, using an AKMS assault rifle, before being shot dead by villagers himself. In total, he has killed 38 people in a span of 5 years.