Tragic details emerge about the final moments of a victim in the Sweden shooting tragedy – police recount a scene of chaos and devastation inside the college.

The heartbreaking last moments of a victim of Sweden’s shooting massacre have been revealed. 

One of the victims of the tragic shooting at Orebro’s Risbergska adult education centre was Salim Iskef, aged 29. The perpetrator, identified by Swedish media as 35-year-old Rickard Andersson, shot and killed ten people during the rampage on Tuesday.

Before Iskef succumbed to his gunshot wounds, he heartbreakingly called his mother via video call. 

‘He said he was shot, that he was in pain. He asked her to take care of his fiancée,’ Salim’s aunt Nadia Deeb told Swedish outlet Alkompis. 

After the shooting, Iskef managed to call his fiancée, with whom he was set to marry in June. During the call, he requested her to look after his mother. Sadly, this conversation marked the final contact his family had with him.

Originally from Syria, Iskef sought refuge in Sweden in 2015. Over the years, he obtained Swedish citizenship and enrolled in the adult education center to pursue a healthcare qualification. His aunt mentioned that Iskef’s aspiration was to use his healthcare knowledge to assist others in need.

This comes as Orebro police chief Lars Wiren revealed: ‘The police who arrived at the scene have spoken about what could be described as an inferno … dead people and injured people, screams and smoke.’ 

Police found three guns, 10 empty bullet magazines and a ‘large amount’ of unused ammunition next to the gunman, who is understood to have turned the gun on himself. 

Wiren said police arrived on the scene five minutes after the alarm was raised and believed the attacker then began directing his fire towards them.

‘After approximately one hour, the acute operation was over when the suspected perpetrator was found dead with several weapons near him,’ Wiren said, adding that police had not opened fire during the incident.

The police officers who first responded to the attack ran into the shooter almost immediately, and after realising they were coming under fire sought cover outside the building, losing sight of the assailant, a police spokesperson said.

A heavily armed response team, better equipped to cope with the smoke, arrived about 10 minutes after the alarm was raised and entered the building, but still struggled to relocate the attacker across the 17,000 square-metre facility.

Police said the smoke was not caused by fire or a bomb but by ‘some sort of pyrotechnics’. Several police had to seek medical attention for inhaling smoke.

Footage of the school shooting taken by student Hashem Shams, who was hiding in a toilet, has been analysed by broadcaster TV4, reportedly revealing someone shouting ‘You should leave Europe’ before two shots were fired. 

The outlet could not verify whether the gunman – named in Swedish media as Rickard Andersson, 35, – was the one who screamed. 

While police said they had no information indicating that the gunman had any ideological motives, his relatives said he was a withdrawn loner who was unemployed and ‘having a hard time’. Authorities said he may have attended the school.

The attacker killed 11 people, including himself, during Sweden’s worst-ever mass shooting on Tuesday. 

Swedish police said ‘multiple nationalities’ are considered to be among the victims, but did not disclose their identities.

Syria’s embassy in Stockholm wrote on Facebook that Syrian citizens were among the dead, without specifying how many.  

Bosnia’s foreign ministry said separately its embassy had been informed by relatives that one Bosnian citizen had been killed and another wounded in the attack. 

Student Hashem Shams filmed himself sitting in a locked toilet cubicle at the school during the massacre, desperately trying to calm his breathing as loud gunshots and shouting reverberated through the corridor outside.

The shooter appeared to be getting closer and closer to his hiding place until he was standing directly outside the cubicle. 

After one explosive blast of the gun, the bullet casing was heard clanging as it hit the floor and rolled away mere feet from Hashem’s position. He briefly turned the camera to face himself just as another shot is fired. 

The bark of the gun caused Hashem to flinch, and his face creased in an expression of sheer terror.

Hashem then climbed onto the sink to avoid being shot through the door. He didn’t dare say a word but overlaid text on his video that read: ‘People are calling for help,’ as alarms were heard blaring.

In another clip published minutes later, Hashem had placed his phone on the floor and was seen sitting on the toilet with his hands up as armed police entered the building.

‘I’m a student!’ he cried as an officer ordered him to open the door. ‘I’m opening the door!’ The officer stormed in and ordered Hashem to stand and turn before performing a body search to ensure he was not carrying a weapon. 

The stark footage emerged as witnesses began recounting their experiences.

Andreas Sundling, 28, was attending a maths class at the school when the shooter began gunning down students in the hallway and described the moment that he heard banging on the classroom door. 

‘We thought “now we are all dead” as they smashed in the door. At that moment I thought “now we are dead”. But it was the police.

‘They asked if we were hurt, they took everybody out from the school and at the entrance of the school there was blood everywhere. It was crazy, there was blood everywhere.’

Eleven people – including the shooter – were shot dead in the shocking attack at Risbergska School in Örebro’s Västhaga district on Tuesday. 

The 35-year-old suspect turned the gun on himself following the rampage, according to police.

Investigators said they were trying to discover a motive but believed the attacker acted alone.

Authorities are yet to confirm the shooter’s identity, but relatives speaking to Swedish press painted a picture of a troubled recluse who had lost contact with his family and friends. 

Expressen reported that Andersson had ‘extreme social phobia’ and would walk around with his ‘hood up’ while covering his mouth with his hands.

One former classmate said he was ‘a little scared’ of him because he always hid his face, according to Expressen.

The shooter also legally changed his name from Jonas Simon eight years ago – a move that took family members by surprise. 

‘We haven’t had much contact with him in recent years. As a child he was different but lively. He did well in school,’ one relative said.

‘But in recent years he has had a hard time. He is not working.’

Another added: ‘He’s really a loner. He used to have a friend he hung out with a lot, but not now. He wants to be by himself. He doesn’t seem to like people.’

They went on to say that the shooter had little contact with his parents who are ‘out travelling a lot’, but that he liked to ‘take care of their dog’.

A team of armed cops conducted a raid on the suspect’s house yesterday afternoon.

Police refused to provide details of the raid to Swedish press, but TV4 claimed the shooter had no previous convictions and was not known to authorities. 

He also possessed a firearms license.

The details emerged as the death toll rose from at least 10 to 11 overnight, with police saying: ‘At this time, there are 11 deaths due to the incident. The number of injured is still unclear. 

‘We currently have no information on the condition of those who have been injured.’

Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described the tragedy as the ‘worst mass shooting in Swedish history, adding: ‘Today, we have witnessed brutal, deadly violence against completely innocent people.’

He later added: ‘My thoughts, the thoughts of all of Sweden, are now with first and foremost with those who are the direct victims of this heinous act. Your grief is our grief. We are with you.’  

Carl Gustaf, the King of Sweden, also paid tribute to the victims in a statement from the Royal House.

‘With sadness and dismay, my family and I have received the information about the terrible atrocity in Örebro,’ the King wrote. 

‘We send our condolences tonight to the families and friends of the deceased. Our thoughts at this time also go to the injured and their relatives, as well as to others affected.’

The King also thanked the staff who worked on the operation during and after the shooting.

‘My family and I would like to express our great appreciation for the police, rescue and medical personnel who worked intensively to save and protect human lives on this dark day.’

Gunnar Strommer, the justice minister, also said it is difficult to take in the magnitude of what has happened.

‘We know that about ten [now 11] people have been killed and many others are injured,’ he said.

‘Our police and healthcare workers are taking care of these people.

‘The primary suspect is now considered to be one of the people that died. It was a person not known to the police previously.

‘We still don’t know why this happened or what the motives could have been. We hope to have those answers.’

Sweden’s conservative opposition party leader revealed he went to school where the shooting took place.

Liberal Party leader Johan Pehrson said he was a pupil there when the campus was previously used as a high school.

The attack was a ‘black day’ for the country, he added, saying his thoughts were with all those affected.

Sweden’s finance minister, who lives in Orebro and whose son attended the school, called the incident ‘unimaginable and sad’.

Elisabeth Svantesson told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet: ‘When our eldest son ran out of the same school with his student cap on his head, the air was full of expectation and joy.

‘Now the same place is instead characterised by violence, anxiety, darkness and fear.’  

Green Party spokesman Daniel Helldén said: ‘Terrible what we are being told from Örebro. My thoughts go out to everyone who is affected: students, staff, relatives. It is unacceptable that this is happening and that the violence is spreading more and more.’

Social Democrat Teresa Carvalho added that she is ‘following with horror what is happening in Örebro’.

‘Thinking of all those affected and worried about their relatives,’ she wrote on X.

It comes after terrifying footage emerged of the heavily armed Swedish school shooter stalking the corridors during his fatal rampage.

The clip, shared on local media, captured the gunman pacing through the hallway of the adult education centre.

During a press conference, Örebro police district chief Roberto Eid Forest said that the perpetrator is not known to be a part of any gang, and reassured there is ‘no danger ahead’.

Authorities also do not believe there is any terrorist motive behind the school shooting and believe he acted alone.