US woman’s injury turns out to be gunshot wound

A woman in the US who thought she had been hit by a firecracker while sitting at a bar was shocked to discover that she had actually been shot after doctors found a bullet embedded in her leg several days later.

Heather Charlebois, 42, said she felt the sting as she sat at a table in the patio of Cafe Da Vinci in Deland, Florida, on July 4.  She thought it was a firecracker because the wound did not bleed.

"My first thought was somebody hit me, slapped me open handed really hard on my leg and pinched me, but it did not make any sense because I didn't see anyone," Charlebois said.

Charlebois went to a hospital five days after the incident when the intense pain in her leg got worse, according to 'The Daytona Beach News-Journal'.