Sweden school shooting latest: First victim named as Syrian refugee as suspect details emerge – UK Times

The fiancee of one of the shooting victims has revealed the devastating last video call she had with him after he had been shot when he told her he loved her.

Speaking through tears, Kareen Elia, 24, reportedly described the moment her fiancee Salim Iskef, 29, phoned her from the Swedish school as he lay dying, with blood visible on his hand and someone seen lying still next to him.

The 24-year-old told Swedish broadcaster STV, according to the Guardian: “He called me and said, ‘I’ve been shot, they shot us.’ He said he loves me and that’s the last thing I heard.”

The couple had been planning to get married on 25 July and had already booked the venue, and Ms Elia had already tried on her wedding dress.

She told the broadcaster: “I still want to believe that he might come home. We can’t sleep, we stand by the window waiting for him to come home. No one wants to believe that he is dead. If he is not alive, we just want to see his body.”

Swedish Police have revealed they are probing reports that the shooting suspect had been a student at the shooting where the attack happened.

In a statement, the force said: “There is information that he has been a student at the school and we will look deeper into that.”

Officers found three guns, 10 empty magazines and a large amount of unused ammunition at the scene.

Swedish Police said three of the four weapons that the suspected shooter had gun licences for were discovered next to his dead body inside the school, alongside the unused ammunition.

The force added that 10 empty magazines were found at the scene, while it was established that a rifle-like weapon had been used to fire shots.

The 130 police officers who arrived at the scene of the school shooting described facing “an inferno”, with dead and injured people seen among smoke as screams rang out.

Swedish Police said around 130 police officers ended up being sent to Campus Risbergska and the surrounding area in response to several alarms on Tuesday.

Lars Wirén, police area manager in Örebro, said: “The police who came to the scene talk about what could be described as an inferno. They were met by dead and injured people, screams and smoke.”

The aunt of a Syrian refugee who was among the shooting victims has described him as a “very kind and good person”.

Speaking of her nephew Salim Iskef, 29, Nadia Reeb told Swedish publication Aftonbladet: “He was very kind, he was happy, social and a good person… He always helped his mother and his sister.”

Ms Reeb added that Mr Iskef had bought a house with his fiancée and the pair were planning to get married this summer.

The final heartbreaking phone call one of the Swedish school shooting victims made to his mother during the attack has been revealed.

Salim Iskef, 29, reportedly called his fiancée then his mother from inside Risbergska School just before he was shot dead in the horror that unfolded there.

In what were among his last words, Mr Iskef’s aunt Nadia Reeb told Aftonbladet that the 29-year-old told his mother: “Mom, take care of yourself and take care of my girl too.”

The close friend of the 29-year-old who has been identified as among those shot dead in the horror attack has told local media of his love for a man who was like his brother.

Jonatan Suaw, 29, said Salim Iskef, 29, who was named in local reports as among the victims of the school shooting in Sweden, told Swedish publication Expressen: “I loved him.”

Mr Suaw said he had been invited to Mr Iskef’s upcoming wedding and had held his niece when she first first born.

Mr Suaw told the newspaper the pair were like brothers and that he now wants to live as Mr Iskef would live if he was still alive, always trying to do his best and being a good person.

A Syrian refugeee who was named as among those shot dead in the school shooting in Sweden has been described as a “hero”.

Jonatan Suaw, 29, told local media Salim Iskef, 29, who was named in Swedish reports as among the victims of the horror attack, had been working as his personal assistant for a year while he studied to become a nurse.

Speaking at a memorial site outside Risbergska School, Mr Suaw, who is unable to walk, said Mr Iskef would carry him when he has been unable to move.

Speaking of Mr Iskef, Mr Suaw told Swedish publication Expressen: “He wanted to educate himself and continue working with people like me. I have lost my hero… He treated me like a human being.”

My colleague Alex Croft reports on everything we know about the victims of the attack: