section_path: Casualties
section_name: Casualties
paragraph_text: Casualties
  
  In total, eleven people, including the perpetrator of the shooting, died: the perpetrator fatally shot ten before killing himself. Six people were taken to Örebro University Hospital, five of whom had gunshot wounds and sustained life-threatening injuries.
  
  The fatalities included seven women and three men; their ages ranged between 28 and 68 years. Six police officers were treated for smoke inhalation. Police confirmed that the perpetrator used at least one smoke grenade in the shooting.
  
  Two citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina were identified as having been shot. One, a female volunteer named Selma Hukić, was killed; the other, a janitor, was injured, but not critically. Both victims came from Tuzla.
  
  Two male Christian refugees from Syria were confirmed among the fatalities. Salim Iskef was a 28-year-old Assyrian who had fled from ISIS and was part of Örebro's Assyrian community. He was due to get married in the summer. He had called his fiancée after the shooting started and asked her to look after his mother. His funeral was held eight days later at a Syriac Orthodox parish.
  
  Other fatalities included two women, an Eritrean and a Kurdish citizen of Iraq (originally from Shaqlawa), who both worked at the school. Elsa Teklay, had immigrated to Sweden from Eritrea in 2015 and was a nursing student at the time. Three other fatalities were identified as citizens of Afghanistan, Iran and Somalia. Ali Mohammed Jafari was 41 years old and from Afghanistan; he was training to be a janitor at the time of the shooting. The Iranian victim, Niloofar, was 42 and also a nursing student.