Irene, a neighbor of La Alberca awarded with ‘El Gordo’, celebrates her fortune this Wednesday at the restaurant La Pequena Taberna de Murcia with family and friends. /
The administrations of the Community distribute 10.8 million of two quarters and two fifth prizes
The extraordinary draw of the Christmas Lottery this Wednesday would have left the Region of Murcia off the podium of fortune were it not for a couple of excursions to Madrid that ended up flocking more than 14 million ‘El Gordo’ for the Community.
The administrations of the Region did not sell tenths of the first, second, or third prize, but that did not prevent the champagne and celebrations with a Murcian accent from spreading by tens of tenths with the number 86148, brought from Atocha and endowed with 400,000 euros each.
The first stroke of luck was carried out by three Murcian lawyers, who acquired in Madrid 30 tenths of this number graced with ‘El Gordo’ and which they distributed on their return among family and friends; the second lucky trip was made by five health workers: four nurses and a caretaker from the Virgen de La Arrixaca Hospital in Murcia who took as many tenths for a total amount of 2 million euros, and who received the news in the middle of the operating room, while performing a catheterization. “They are in ‘shock’,” admitted one of his companions to LAVERDAD.
It was not be for lowerly. In total, it was about 14 million that these two lucky excursions brought to the Region of the most important prize of the drawing. And that the hype was elusive all morning.
The administrations of the Region had to settle for distributing part of five fifth prizes and two fourths worth another 7.8 million euros, to which must be added another 3.2 million distributed by the administration number 54 of Murcia in the neighborhood del Progreso, known as ‘La Morenica’, which sold about 1,600 tenths of the number immediately before ‘El Gordo’: 86147, worth 2,000 euros and 100 more than one stone. «They have sold it in Molina, Zarandona, Alcantarilla, Santiago El Mayor and Sangonera la Seca; and a man who has a son with serious problems sold about 500 by himself to pay for the operation, “explained the owner of the administration, Samuel Benito.
Los Dolores de Cartagena received 6.9 million from number 26711, awarded with a fifth prize, through the El Popeye administration, which sold a total of 1,150 tenths. Its manager, Pedro Egea, was excited to remember his father, Miguel, who passed away a few years ago, since the winning number was “a family tradition.” The same number that also splashed Ceutí and Alcantarilla: 48,000 euros left in Ceutí; and another 60,000; in the administration number 3 of Alcantarilla.
Pepe, the Ceutí local lottery administrator, indicated that he distributed a total of 30 tenths of the number. «The reception this year has been impressive. We are exhausted, but very happy, “he said. The sale was made “mostly by the window,” and “more than half” went to “people from the town, I know,” he added with a laugh. For his part, Juan Marín, from the sewer administration, reported that 10 tenths had been sold.
The fourth prizes of the Lottery ‘watered’ up to four municipalities in the Region with 520,000 euros from the numbers 42,833 and 91179. Specifically, the first, awarded with 20,000 euros to the tenth, fell in Murcia, Molina, San Pedro del Pinatar and Torre Pacheco, and distributed a total of 300,000 euros. The number was distributed to the Carrefour Infante Juan Manuel de Murcia administration; in the local Virgen del Pasico de Torre Pacheco; in Keteway, located on Gutiérrez Mellado de Molina avenue, and in El Perolo de San Pedro.
The second fourth prize, distributed between Murcia and San Pedro del Pinatar, left 220,000 euros, number 91179. The lottery administration L’Agustinica de Murcia, was in charge of distributing luck in the capital of the Region. “Giving a prize is the second greatest joy of my life, only behind the birth of my children”, admitted Pepe Imbernón, L’Agustinica lottery. In San Pedro, once again, El Perolo was in charge of uncorking the champagne. The other four remaining fifth prizes in the Region were 92052, 70316, 24198 and 89109, with close to 300,000 euros widely distributed.
It should be noted that dozens of administrations remained closed this Wednesday in the Region as a protest to demand an increase in sales commissions.
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