Massive £7.6m EuroMillions lottery jackpot claimed by lucky UK ticketholder in life-changing win
A LUCKY Brit has scooped an eye-watering £7.6 MILLION jackpot win in the latest EuroMillions lottery draw.
Camelot has confirmed they received a claim for the £7,639,134 jackpot prize won by a single ticket-holder in the Lotto draw on Saturday.
Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said, “We’re delighted that this fantastic Lotto jackpot has been claimed, what a fabulous February this has turned out to be for this lucky ticket-holder.
“Our focus is now on supporting this jackpot ticket-holder through the process and helping them start to enjoy their truly life-changing win.
“This is the already the fourth lucky Lotto jackpot multi-millionaire created this year, after two lucky ticket-holders shared the £12M jackpot in the draw on 28 January which followed on from a very happy start to the new year for a single ticket-holder who scooped the £4M jackpot on 7 January.”
The first EuroMillions draw took place on February 7, 2004, by three organisations: France's Française des Jeux, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and the Camelot in the UK.
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