Spanish villagers devastated by forest fire win €468m in lottery prizes
by Stephen Burgen in Barcelona from World news | The Guardian on (#72B0E)
Mayor of La Baneza says winning El Gordo Christmas lottery is something that has fallen from the heavens'
When the village of La Baneza in Castilla y Leon was engulfed in one of the worst forest fires in Spanish history, the rain came too late to save it.
But now the Christmas lottery has showered its 10,000 inhabitants with hundreds of millions of euros.
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