Accidental Martyrdom?

Many of you have heard of the bus bombing that took place last Wednesday killing one and injuring many. Interesting information has caused me to be interested in the attack and to comment briefly.

The victim of the attack was a woman from the U.K. and worked with Wycliffe Bible Translators. She worked for 20 years translating the New Testament in Togo (West Africa) and had come to Jerusalem to study Hebrew in preparation for return and translation of the Old Testament.

My primary thought is the sovereignty of God. The flow of people through the Jerusalem Central Bus Station is by far primarily Jewish. In addition the claimant of the bombing was Hamas, indicating further the Jewish population and the state of Israel as the target of terror. Why then does God allow a woman translating His Word to be the the unsuspected and untargeted victim? This can't even be published as a story of martyrdom. Dare we even try to make sense of it?

All this came upon us,
though we had not forgotten you;
we had not been false to your covenant.
Our hearts had not turned back;
our feet had not strayed from your path.

Psalm 44