When his hometown of Roquetas de Mar won first prize in Tuesday’s draw, everybody who’d bought a ticket in the coastal resort was automatically entitled to a share of a massive 630 million jackpot.
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It has become a popular Christmas tradition in Spain, with friends, colleagues and bar regulars banding together to buy tickets.
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It was all worth it in the end, as the Senegalese man who had travelled with just €5 has won €400,000 ($436,000) in Spain’s Christmas lottery.
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Ngagne told reporters he had recently lost his job as a vegetable picker in greenhouses near the town of Almeria.
They were taken there after being rescued by Spain’s coast guard when the boat they were travelling in ran into trouble.
The lottery agency owner that sold winning tickets told Thursday’s La Voz de Almeria newspaper that about 35 African migrants won.
“We will be able to do a lot of things – everything we want”, La Voz de Almeria quoted her as saying. “I want to give thanks to Spaniards and the Spanish government for rescuing me when I was in the sea”, he told the newspaper.
“El Gordo” hands out numerous prizes each Christmastime.
This year’s lottery draw, like others a huge collective affair, provided a welcome distraction from Sunday’s national election, which plunged the country into a political stalemate and ended nearly four decades of two-party rule.
Winners from across the country flocked to local retail outlets to toast their good fortune with bottles of sparkling cava in the traditional Christmas lottery, the world’s largest.
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Across the nation, people stay glued to the television as lower-level winning numbers are announced until El Gordo is sung out.
