88008 is the magic number for Spain’s El Gordo lottery

The numbers were drawn in Madrid (AP)

Holders of tickets with the number 88008 are celebrating in Spain after winning the top prize in Spain’s huge Christmas lottery.

The immensely popular lottery El Gordo – “the fat one” – distributed a total of 2.6 billion euro (£2.2 billion) in prizes this year, much of it in relatively small sums.