American woman Christine Logan Fatally Stabbed on Hike in Jerusalem

A British woman has told her harrowing tale of survival after she and an American friend were stabbed by two men while hiking in a forest near Jerusalem.

Kaye Susan Wilson, 46, said she only survived the brutal attack because she played dead. She could only lay in terrified silence and listen as U.S. citizen Christine Logan was stabbed to death.

When the men had gone she managed to flee, her hands still bound behind her back, to a nearby parking area where she found help.

The dead body of her friend was found the next day, with her hands bound behind her back and with multiple stab wounds, outside the city of Jerusalem by Israeli police.

Miss Wilson told police they had been attacked by two Arab men while hiking in the Mata forest, near the town of Beit Shemesh.

Speaking from her hospital bed, Miss Wilson, a tour guide who emigrated to Israel from the UK in the 1990s, recalled the moment when one of her attackers pulled a serrated knife on her and her friend, who was visiting the Middle East country.

She told Israeli newspaper Haaretz she and her companion had been sitting down, just off the hiking trail, when the two men approached and asked them in Hebrew if they had any water.

She tried to get them to leave, she said, feeling that 'something wasn't right', and the two women then headed back towards the trail.

Tragic: Israeli Zaka volunteers carry the body of U.S. citizen Christine Logan out of the forest in Mata, Israel today after she was stabbed to death

Horror: Miss Logan had been on a hike with a British friend when the pair were attacked. Her friend survived by playing dead - listening as the men continued to attack Miss Logan

Israeli border police in a briefing last night near the site of yesterday's attack near Moshav Mata, Israel

Gruesome search: Rescuers look in the forest for the body of Christine Logan after her friend - who escaped with her life - alerted authorities to the attack

'Suddenly I noticed them,' she went on. 'It all happened so fast. They came and attacked us.'

One of the men pulled out a long knife, which looked like a bread knife with a serrated edge, she said.

'I was scared but my friend became hysterical. I told her in English to be quiet and not make noise,' she said.

But the men then began to stab both women.

'I had a Star of David hanging on a chain around my neck. He took it off like a gentleman and then tued me around and stabbed in the place where the Star of David had been,' she said.

It was clear that the two men had come to kill, she added, questioning why they would have been carrying such a knife otherwise.

Guard: Grim-faced investigators keep watch over Miss Logan's body (not shown) after its discovery in the forest some 25 miles out of Jerusalem

The attack took place in the Mata Forest, some 25miles from Jerusalem

She recalled how she then lay still, faking death while listening to her friend die.

The discovery of the stabbed and bound body prompted speculation that the brutal attack was politically motivated.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: 'We are aware of the hospitalisation of a British national in Jerusalem. We stand ready to offer consular assistance if requested.

'We are aware of reports of the death of a woman in Jerusalem. We are urgently looking into these reports.'

Yuval Weiss, director of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, told media he expected Miss Wilson to be released in a few days.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said he could not confirm any details about the dead woman or her friend.

The hospital said later that Miss Wilson had been moved from intensive care to a normal ward in the cardiothoracic surgery department.

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