A GERMAN woman owes her life to a wonder-bra that stopped a hunter’s stray bullet and saved her life.

    The woman, 42, was on holiday in Mecklenberg-Western Pomerania near Berlin on Friday when the rogue bullet was fired as she and her husband were enjoying a bike ride.

    They were crossing a field near the town of Gadebusch when they unwittingly cycled into the path of a wild boar hunt.

    “I felt a sudden pain in my chest,” the woman later told police. “I looked down to see that the wire in my bra was bent.”

    Police believe she was hit by a ricochet and said that the bra had probably saved her life, or at the very least from “massive injuries.”

    The woman’s husband spotted the gunman in an adjoining field and told him what had happened.

    “Those in charge of the hunt then broke it up straight away,” said police spokesperson Andre Falke. Charges of causing injury due to negligence may be filed against the shooter.

    The unnamed woman, on holiday from her home in western Germany, sustained a large bruise on her chest but was otherwise unharmed.

    A car driver stopped and took her to a local hospital immediately after the incident. The bra was submitted to police as evidence in any possible future court hearings.

    “The woman’s underwear did her a very valuable service,” added a police spokesman.

    In 2008, a man died in a similar accident in a nearby town. The 6.5-mm bullets used by the boar hunters can kill at long distances.(SD-Agencies)