One of the victims of the attack on an adult education centre in Sweden rang his fiancee one last time after being shot to tell her he loved her.
Salim Iskef, 29, is thought to be one of the 10 people killed in Orebro on Tuesday.
Local media has named Rickard Andersson as the perpetrator behind the attack, which the Swedish prime minister described as the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.
After being shot, Mr Iskef, a newly engaged nursing assistant, managed to call his fiancee one final time.
“He said he loved me so much”, Kareen Elia, his fiancee, told Sky News’ Swedish partner TV4.
“You have no words. I can’t describe the feelings. We were supposed to get married on July 25,” she said.
She added that, after he called her lying on the floor, she could not understand what she was seeing on FaceTime and was in shock.
Then he said: “Take care of my mother, yourself,” Ms Elia told the Swedish outlet. She added: “He said he had been shot. That they had shot us. I asked where. He hung up. I called again and again but he didn’t answer.”
Ms Elia was critical of the police’s handling of the situation, saying officers could have saved him if they had acted faster.
She also said she was still waiting for confirmation of her fiancee’s death. “We haven’t seen him yet,” she added.
‘We heard him walking around’
It comes as one of the survivors told Sky News correspondent Ashna Hurynag how, as she hid fearing for her life, she heard the footsteps of Andersson close by.
Meracil Kallkvist said: “I was really shaking. It was scary. I was thinking, I was going to panic.
“I wanted to run to save my life because I was thinking I don’t want to get… [hurt] here sitting down and hiding.”
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She recounted how she panicked as the first shots rang out, fearing something might have exploded, while some of the other students went to investigate the noises.
Ms Kallkvist said: “They wanted to know, then after like two seconds because [of the] other shots, one person ran back, someone was shooting, so I ran.”
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While looking for somewhere to hide, she described how she met her teacher and, unable to lock the door of the room they were in, they pushed tables and chairs against it to try to block it.
It was then they heard Andersson walking around.
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Ms Kallkvist added: “After, we heard him walking around. Yes… it was really scary, if he’d just turned to the room where we were hiding…
“He [was] just walking around and talking and after we heard banging on the doors, I think it was the other room, then suddenly shots again.”
Police previously said they were yet to establish a motive and that the gunman was believed to have shot himself dead.
