Scottish Bible translator Mary Jean Gardner was killed when a bomb exploded next to a bus stop in Jerusalem.

Miss Gardner was caught in the bomb blast at the central bus station, the Telegraph reports.

She was the only person to die in the attack which left up to 30 others wounded.

Miss Gardner, who was a well-regarded Bible translator, came to Israel at the beginning of the year to study Hebrew and took courses at Hebrew University.

She had come to Israel to hone her Hebrew skills before embarking on a translation of the Old Testament.

A spokesman for Wycliffe Bible Translators, said: “Wycliffe Bible Translators are sad to announce the death of their member Mary Gardner in a terrorist explosion in Jerusalem on 23 March 2011 where she was studying Hebrew at The Home for Bible Translators.”

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Scottish Bible translator killed by Jerusalem bus stop bomb (UK Telegraph)

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