Britain proved a good place to buy a lottery ticket this week as six Britons won 6.4 million pounds each in the EuroMillions lottery draw on Friday.
With no single ticket holder matching all five main numbers and the two Lucky Star numbers, the 96 million pounds jackpot was shared between 16 people across Europe, operator Camelot said.
France had five winners, Switzerland had two, while Austria, Belgium and Portugal had one.
At peak time on Friday before the draw, Camelot said it expected sales to be running at two million tickets an hour in the UK.
The previous biggest single winner was grandmother Dolores McNamara, from County Limerick, in the Republic of Ireland, who won 77 million pounds in July 2005.
The biggest EuroMillions jackpot of 126 million pounds was shared between two winners from France and one from Portugal in February 2006.
Luxembourg, the Republic of Ireland and Spain are the three other European countries involved in the EuroMillions lottery draw.
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