US Powerball lottery: Two tickets share $550m jackpot

Two winning tickets were bought for a share of a $550m (£344m) US Powerball lottery jackpot, the second biggest prize in US history, organisers say.

The jackpot swelled after 16 consecutive draws had failed to produce a winning ticket.

No-one has yet come forward to claim the prize.

Tickets had been selling at a rate of 130,000 a minute nationwide, but the odds of scooping the top prize had been calculated at one in 175 million.

Statisticians calculated that a player had more chance of becoming US president, dying from a bee sting or getting struck by lightning than hitting the jackpot.

The numbers drawn late on Wednesday were 5, 23, 16, 22, 29 and 6.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20535355

out of those numbers would of won a tenner here in the uk, 3 of them are mine

The winners are from Arizona and Missouri.

has it been claimed then