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With 48 hours to go until the Christmas lottery draw, many people in Madrid are rushing to buy last minute tickets to the world's richest lottery and try their luck. One of the mythical Christmas lottery establishments is Doña Manolita, where queues often reach two corners.
The popular state-run lottery will dish out a total of 2.59 billion euros ($2.83 billion), much of it in hundreds of smaller prizes. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES