$6m Spanish lottery ticket found

MADRID: Spanish officials on Tuesday were seeking the winner of a 4.7 million-euro ($6.3-million) lottery jackpot after the lucky ticket was found unclaimed. The slip of paper turned up in La Coruna, northwestern Spain, the city´s mayor said. Media reports said the vendor who sold it found it on his counter.



 "It is a very unusual item. It is not a necklace or a wallet that has been lost, but a lottery ticket worth nearly five million euros," said mayor Carlos Negreira in a statement. "I am going to be the only mayor in Spain who is looking for a millionaire not so as to ask for money but to give it." [break]



The vendor handed the ticket, issued for a lottery draw in June 2012, back to the state lottery company. After a year went by without it being claimed, the lottery reported it to La Coruna´s city hall, which is legally charged with advertising lost property.

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