MADRID: Spaniards are gripped to their television sets, radios and mobile phones, hoping to strike it rich as the nation holds its bumper Christmas lottery. But for once, there are more viewers for other than La Liga football.
The incredibly popular lottery, known as El Gordo , will dish out 2.24 billion euros in prizes this year.Other lotteries have bigger individual top prizes but El Gordo, held each year on Dec 22, is ranked as the world's richest for the total prize-money involved.
Children from Madrid's San Ildefonso school call out the prizes on a nationally televised drawing that will be held at Madrid's Teatro Real opera house.The lottery is run by the state and supports several charity efforts. - AP
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