Jerusalem - Israeli police on Sunday found the dead body of a woman who went missing near Jerusalem, and were investigating whether she was the target of a terror attack, a spokesman said.
“We discovered this morning, near Beit Shemesh, the body of a woman who disappeared on Saturday,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.
“An investigation is underway. We do not know whether this was a criminal act or a nationalistic attack and we do not know at the moment what nationality the women was,” he said.
Police began searching for the woman on Saturday night after passers-by discovered her friend suffering multiple stab wounds and with her hands tied behind her back.
The woman told police she and her friend had been attacked by “two Arabs,” and she had managed to escape.
She was found around dusk near the village of Mata, west of Jerusalem and inside Israel.
“Her hands were tied, she was stabbed in the upper part of her body, she claimed that two Arabs stabbed her,” Rosenfeld told AFP.
On Saturday, Israeli rescue services said the injured woman, whose nationality was not disclosed, was in moderate to serious condition at Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital.
By Sunday, hospital director Yuval Weiss said the woman was “out of danger but would stay under surveillance in the intensive care department for several days.” - Sapa-AFP