A Croatian woman was left with a severely burned anus after a lightning strike which entered through her mouth left her body through her bottom.

The lightning reportedly struck Natasha Timarovic’s building as she was cleaning her teeth – with her mouth to the tap, sending the current through her body.

And as she was wearing rubber-soled shoes, the lightning bolt was unable to earth through her feet – so it took the next easiest route, and came out of her rectum.

It then earthed itself via her moist shower curtain.

‘It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don’t remember much at all,’ Timarovic said.

A medic told local news station 24 Sata: ‘Instead of earthing through her feet, it appears the electricity shot out of her backside… if she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed.’

The medic described the incident as ‘bizarre, but not impossible.’