Spain’s El Gordo lottery dishes out Christmas joy with €2.5bn pot
by Ashifa Kassam in Madrid from World news | The Guardian on (#6743J)
Unemployed mother of two is among winners as world's biggest lottery hands out prizes of up to 325,000
A Gambian man who crossed from the Mediterranean by boat and an unemployed mother of two were among those rejoicing after the world's biggest lottery sprayed money across Spain.
On Thursday, the country celebrated the Christmas lottery known as El Gordo, or the Fat One, which dished out 2.5bn (2.2bn) in prize money.
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