£161m Euromillions winners are couple from Falkirk
ASTANA. July 15. KAZINFORM A couple from Falkirk have emerged as the winners of the £161m Euromillions jackpot. Kazinform refers to BBC.
Lottery operator Camelot plans to reveal their identity at 1430 BST at a hotel in the town.
Tuesday's £161,653,000 prize was Europe's biggest-ever and was capped after a series of rollovers. It follows a £113m UK Euromillions win in October.
The winners matched all five main numbers and both Lucky Stars.
The numbers were 17, 19, 38, 42 and 45, and the Lucky Stars were 9 and 10.
Two other UK-based lottery players won £1.7m after they successfully matched five numbers and one Lucky Star.
If the winner had been a single player, he or she would instantly have been placed 430th in this year's Sunday Times Rich List just above Scottish businessman Sir Angus Grossart and Irina Abramovich, the former wife of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Before Tuesday's draw, the largest lottery winner in the UK was the player who claimed £113m in the EuroMillions last October and chose to remain anonymous.
Britons have banked the EuroMillions jackpot more than 14 times in the last two years. Kazinform cites BBC. See www.bbc.co.uk for full version