QUIRKY WORLD ... Woman shot in the heart makes a clean breast of it

An underwired bra saved a woman’s life after she was struck near the heart by a stray bullet.

Globo television network says Ivete Medeiros, a shopkeeper in the Amazonian city of Belem, was hit after she heard a commotion and emerged from a market to investigate. A thief holding up a passerby on the other side of the street opened fire, and a bullet struck Medeiros under her left breast.

Medeiros’s husband told Globo he thought his wife had died.