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Lottery winner fails to claim prize
By Wang Xiang and Lu Feiran |
January 16, 2009, Friday
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THE winner of a 5.66 million yuan (US$827,600) lottery failed to collect the money today, the deadline for the prize.
The unclaimed money will be added to the next draw, the Shanghai Welfare Lottery Center said.
The winning numbers were announced on December 18. The winning ticket was purchased at an outlet on Jiangyue Road in Minhang District.
"The winner is a tall, middle-aged man with a strong accent,"said a man surnamed Yu who witnessed the purchase of the winning ticket. "I happened to see the last number of his ticket; it was a blue ball 2, which came out the last time as well. Normally, we lottery buyers would avoid that number. But it turned out to be the winning number."
Shen Longping, the owner of the lottery booth, said more people are buying tickets at the shop once word spread that a winning ticket was sold at the outlet.
Officials with the center said the winner may not have realized he won a big prize.
"Minhang has many migrant workers and we think the winner may have been a migrant worker who has left for their hometown for the Spring Festival," said Ma Shaohua, an official with the center.
According to Union Lotto rules, a prize can only be claimed within thirty days after the draw is made.
It was the first time such a large lottery prize was not claimed in Shanghai.
The unclaimed money will be added to the next draw, the Shanghai Welfare Lottery Center said.
The winning numbers were announced on December 18. The winning ticket was purchased at an outlet on Jiangyue Road in Minhang District.
"The winner is a tall, middle-aged man with a strong accent,"said a man surnamed Yu who witnessed the purchase of the winning ticket. "I happened to see the last number of his ticket; it was a blue ball 2, which came out the last time as well. Normally, we lottery buyers would avoid that number. But it turned out to be the winning number."
Shen Longping, the owner of the lottery booth, said more people are buying tickets at the shop once word spread that a winning ticket was sold at the outlet.
Officials with the center said the winner may not have realized he won a big prize.
"Minhang has many migrant workers and we think the winner may have been a migrant worker who has left for their hometown for the Spring Festival," said Ma Shaohua, an official with the center.
According to Union Lotto rules, a prize can only be claimed within thirty days after the draw is made.
It was the first time such a large lottery prize was not claimed in Shanghai.
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