DUBAI: An Indian expat living in Doha has won a mega prize worth 15 million dirhams ($14.1 million) in Abu Dhabi’s Big Ticket raffle.
Thasleena Purayil, from Kerala, purchased her ticket online on Jan. 26.
Her winning ticket number 291310 was picked at the draw held on Wednesday.
Purayil told Dubai-based newspaper Gulf News that she was excited about the win.
“It was the first time we bought the Big Ticket. I cannot believe we won,” she said.
The winner is a mother of three: a son aged 21, a 15 year-old daughter and an infant just over a year old.
The draw’s largest prize is the Mighty 20 million Jackpot, followed by prizes of 15 million dirhams, Dh12 million dirhams and Dh10 million dirhams.
Purayil was among seven other Indians who had won prize money between 350,000 dirhams to 20,000 dirhams in the raffle draw.
Abu Dhabi’s Big Ticket is the longest-running and biggest raffle draw in the UAE.
Indian expat in Qatar wins 15 million dirhams in Abu Dhabi raffle
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Indian expat in Qatar wins 15 million dirhams in Abu Dhabi raffle
Vietnam police find frozen tiger bodies, arrest two men
Vietnamese police have found two dead tigers inside freezers in a man’s basement, arresting him and another for illicit trade in the endangered animal, the force said Saturday.
The Southeast Asian country is a consumption hub and popular trading route for illegal animal products, including tiger bones which are used in traditional medicine.
Police in Thanh Hoa province, south of the capital Hanoi, said they had found the frozen bodies ot two adult tigers, weighing about 400 kilograms (882 pounds) in total, in the basement of 52-year-old man Hoang Dinh Dat.
In a statement posted online, police said the man told officers he had bought the animals for two billion dong ($77,000), identifying the seller as 31-year-old Nguyen Doan Son.
Both had been arrested earlier this week, police said.
According to the statement, the buyer had equipment to produce so-called tiger bone glue, a sticky substance believed to heal skeletal ailments.
Tigers used to roam Vietnam’s forests, but have now disappeared almost entirely.
