Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at home when
lightning struck the building.
She said: "I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the
toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building.
I don't remember much after that, but I was later told that the
lightning had travelled down the water pipe and struck me on the
mouth, passing through my body.
It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then
I don't remember much at all." Doctors at the city hospital where
she was treated for burns to the mouth and rear said: "The accident
is bizarre but not impossible.
She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of
earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of
her backside," a medic told local television news channel, 24
Sata.
"It appears to have earthed through the damp shower curtain that
she was touching as she bent over to put her mouth under the tap.
If she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been
killed by the blast."
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