Truck driver claims P142-M lotto prize
MANILA, Philippines - A 33-year-old truck driver from Caloocan City went home with the P142,859,048.40 jackpot prize of the 6/55 Grand Lotto draw last Wednesday, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) said yesterday.
PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II handed the check to the winning truck driver, who was accompanied by his wife and brother to the PCSO main office to claim the prize.
The winner bought two tickets worth P40 with one getting the winning combination 09-01-06-40-16-35.
“The driver plans to set up his own trucking business,” according to Rojas who asked the winner on his plans in spending the money.
This is the third time that a player hit the more than P100-million jackpot of the 6/55 Grand Lotto.
In November last year, a Filipino-American on vacation in the country hit the P742-million jackpot in Olongapo City and three months ago, a 60-year-old carpenter from Las Piñas also won the P341-million jackpot prize. A government employee from General Santos City also won P101 million of the 6/49 Super Lotto game last month.
The latest winner will join the so-called lotto millionaires’ club as the 84th member since January of this year.
Rojas said the lotto millionaires club has more than 1,700 members, mostly ordinary folks and senior citizens betting on the online lottery game since 1995.
Last Monday, a 65-year-old retiree from Valenzuela City and a 59-year-old house painter from Angeles City claimed the jackpot prizes of the 6/49 Super Lotto and the 6/45 Mega Lotto in two successive draws last week.
The retiree hit the winning combination of the 6/49 Super Lotto Sunday draw 06-09-11-18-23-29 that carried the jackpot of P39,943,044.00 while on Saturday, the house painter from Angeles also hit the winning combination of the 6/45 Mega Lotto 43-26-21-27-09-11 with a prize of P10,488,378.00.
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By Perseus Echeminada (The Philippine Star)
