THIS year's El Gordo Christmas lottery jackpot number is 71198 and has been won by players in around 20 towns, villages and cities in the provinces of Murcia, Valencia, Las Palmas, Cádiz, Lleida, Jaén, Huesca, Lugo, and in the regions of Cantabria, Madrid and the Canary Islands.
In accordance with tradition, the children's choir at the San Ildefonso school in Madrid 'sang' the winning numbers, with the jackpot combination announced by pupils Yousseff Salhi and Noelia Katiuska.
Lottery tickets are sold either as a whole, for €200, or as décimos or tenths of a ticket at €20 each.
Among the winners, a total of 160 factory workers in Esbelt de Manlleu (Barcelona province) have won €2.28 million between them after drawing the third-prize ticket, number 06914, worth €500,000 for a full one or €50,000 for a décimo.
The first prize is worth €4m for a ticket or €400,000 for a décimo.
Second prize has gone to tickets bearing the number 51244, worth €1.25m for a full one or €125,000 for a décimo.
Fourth-prize tickets are numbered 13378 and 61207, for €200,000 or €20,000 a décimo, and fifth-prize tickets, worth €60,000 or €6,000 a décimo, are numbers 58808, 05431, 37872, 18065, 03278, 00580, 24982, and 22253.
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