While the police declined to disclose nationalities, at least two of the victims of the attack at the Campus Risbergska educational centre came from Syria, one came from Iran, one from Iraq, one from Somalia, one from Eritrea, one from Afghanistan, and one from Bosnia.
This means that at least eight out of ten victims had an immigrant background.
Salim Iskef
According to the AlKompis news site, Iskef, 29, fled to Sweden from Aleppo during the Syrian civil war in 2015. Although he had trained as a computer engineer in Syria, in Sweden he was employed as a care worker helping the elderly and disabled.
He had been studying at the college to be a healthcare worker and had planned to marry his fiancée on July 25th, with the venue booked and his girlfriend already having tried on wedding dresses.
Jonatan Suaw, 29, a disabled man who Iskef helped as an assistant in 2023, told Expressen that the two had become close friends. Iskef, he said, was a Christian and a regular churchgoer whose dream had been to visit St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Bassam al Sheleh
The second Syrian victim was Bassam al Sheleh, a 48-year-old chef from Syria, who was studying SFI at the school and who, a colleague told Expressen, had been "a spreader of happiness" who was constantly posting videos on TikTok.
Kamar
Kamar, 38, who came to Sweden from Somalia ten years ago, had been studying Swedish at the college and, her aunt told the Expressen newspaper, had planned to educate herself as a nurse or a preschool teacher.
Elsa Teklay
Elsa Teklay, 32, from Eritrea, was training to be a nurse at the college and had plans to train as a doctor. At the same time as studying, she worked at an old people's home, the Aftonbladet newspaper reported.
Ali Mohammed Jafari
Jafari, 31, from Afghanistan, had been training at the college to be a lokalvårdare or janitor, the Expressen newspaper reported. He lived in Karlskoga, and leaves a wife and child.
Niloofar
Niloofar, 46, was also training to be a nursing assistant, the Expressen newspaper reported. She lived in Örebro and leaves behind a husband, Hossein. Niloofar is a name of Persian origin used predominantly in Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Aziza
According to the public broadcaster SVT, Aziza, 68, came to Sweden from Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1990s and had worked as a maths teacher for 20 years, the last seven at Campus Risbergska. Her YouTube channel, to which she uploaded free lessons, has more than 120,000 followers.
Woman
Aged 52, lived in Glanshammar, leaves husband and child.
Woman
Aged 54, lived in Örebro. Adult children.
Woman
Aged 55, lived in Örebro, single.
Members of the Kommunal union
Britt-Marie Balaj, chair of the careworker division at the local branch of the Kommunal union, said that at least two members of her union had lost their lives in the attack.
"Several of our members didn't come to work," she said, saying that they had been people who worked in elderly care or as assistant nurses and who were studying at the college to improve their qualifications. "We know that they're missing and the uncertainty is terrible."
Susanne Hammarström, who represents the union's technical and education division, said that her branch also had members missing.
"This is about people who were employed at the school as, for example, translators, cooks, janitors and the like."
'Camilla'
A photo the TT newswire took at the memorial site showed a card left to commemorate Fina Camilla, meaning "Lovely Camilla", or "Wonderful Camilla". While it doesn't prove anything about nationality, Camilla is very common name among ethnic Swedes.
Bosnian victim
Bojan Sosic, the Bosnian ambassador to Sweden, told the Expressen newspaper on Thursday morning that one of the dead had been Bosnian.
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