Diamond Valley man wins $2.5M on Lotto 6-49

Allen Briggs won $2.5 million on a Lotto 6-49 ticket. (WCLC handout)

A Diamond Valley resident has won $2.5 million from a Lotto 6-49 ticket.

“I won’t believe it until I see it [in the bank],” Allen Briggs said in a Wednesday news release from the Western Canada Lottery Corporation.

Briggs bought his ticket from the Fas Gas in Longview, Alta.

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He won by matching the numbers 6, 9, 21, 24, 41 and 48 on the Dec. 21 classic draw.

Briggs said at first, he thought he won $250,000.

He says he doesn’t have any big plans for his windfall.

“Mostly, I just want like to continue the way it is,” he said. “But I might pay off a couple mortgages… for our kids."

The Dec. 21 draw was shared with another ticket purchased somewhere in the Atlantic provinces.