Spain kicked off the winter holidays with its huge Christmas lottery known as El Gordo, and an unemployed Peruvian woman was among the winners of its top 400,000-euro ($578,800 Cdn) prizes Thursday.
The Associated PressPeople applaud for Perla Gavidia from Peru and her daughter Michelle after they won the first prize in the draw of Spain's traditional Christmas lottery El Gordo , at Teatro Real, in Madrid, on Thursday.
The woman said she lost her job at a cafe two years ago and had bought lottery tickets "everywhere I have visited this year." She revealed she purchased the 20-euro ticket with the number 05490 that led to Thursday's win in Spain's northern Asturias region. For weeks beforehand there are queues, even in the cold and rain, outside lottery offices, especially those that have sold prize-winning tickets in the past. Ticket sales begin months ahead — this year as early as July.
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