A British hairdresser has won over £2million playing the lottery in the United Arab Emirates for only the second time in her life.
The AED 10 million (£2.2million) winner, named only as Inger, used to make AED 10,000 (£2,230) a month working in a beauty salon in Dubai before she became a homemaker.
Inger, 42, had reportedly given up putting away enough cash, however, to open her own hair salon one day.
That is until she played the Mahzooz Lottery, one of the main lotteries in the Emirates.
Mahzooz means 'lucky' or 'fortunate' in Arabic.
Inger, a mum of one who lives in Dubai, told local media yesterday: "I want to fulfil my dream of opening a hair salon with my friend, invest for my family's safe financial future and secure my son's future.
She added: "My husband and I have always wanted a second child, but dropped the plan because of how expensive school fees are. We will reconsider that now."
Inger won the huge AED 10 million prize in Saturday's draw after playing the Mahzooz for only the second time in her life, local reports claim.
She said she chose the numbers - 22, 23, 25, 27 and 34 - at random.
Inger is the 31st person to become a millionaire playing the Mahzooz lottery and the first woman.
The Mirror reported yesterday how a lucky punter scooped a $50,000 lottery prize after accidentally putting too much money into a vending machine and ending up with a winning ticket.
The winner, Carlos Medina, purchased the prize ticket in the city of Laurel, in the US state of Maryland.
A statement obtained from the Maryland Lottery on Wednesday, said the auto business employee had only meant to buy $20 (£6.25) worth of tickets.
But he ended up buying $40 (£32.50) after he pressed the wrong button on the vending machine.
And one of the tickets turned out to be worth $50,000 (£40,500).
The Maryland Lottery said: "Hitting the wrong button on a Lottery self-serve vending machine led a Bowie man to make a series of decisions that gave him a $50,000 prize and a trip to the Lottery Winner's Circle in Baltimore."
They added that the lucky winner had "visited Royal Farms £244 in Laurel to buy food, charge up his electric vehicle and buy a few Powerball tickets for the December 10 draw."
The US lottery operator explained he had meant to buy $20 worth of tickets from the machine, but he accidentally hit the button that triggered the machine to cash him out, and the machine printed a $20 voucher instead.
Realising he now had $40 worth of credit on the vending machine, Carlos decided to buy four $10 Powerball quick-pick tickets and went home.
