British woman stabbed and US tourist killed in Israel

Kaye Wilson plays dead to survive the attack, allegedly by two men, during hike in forest near Jerusalem

A British woman was tied up and stabbed while walking near Jerusalem, but survived the assault by pretending to be dead. Her companion, an American tourist, was later found killed.

Kaye Wilson, a British citizen who moved to Israel in the early 1990s, was found on Saturday night with her hands tied behind her back, bleeding from several knife wounds.

She told police that she and her companion, Christine Logan, had been hiking in a forest west of Jerusalem at Khirbet Hanut, an archaeological site, when two Arab men attacked them.

It was unclear whether the assault was a politically-motivated attack by Palestinian militants or whether it was a random criminal offence, said Micky Rosenfeld, police spokesman.

"We are looking into the incident. There are different possibilities, including the possibility of a terror attack," Rosenfeld said. "There are no clear conclusions at the moment." The assault has not been claimed by any armed group.

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