A woman who was struck by lightning suffered severe burning to her anus as it entered through her mouth and passed right through her body.

Natasha Timarovic, 27, was at home cleaning her teeth when lightning hit 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 traveled 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 who treated Timarovic, "The accident is bizarre but not impossible."

"She had been wearing rubber bathroom shoes so instead of earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of her backside," a medic told local newspaper, 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."