Survivor of Dubai crash-landing wins $1m sweepstakes
After he escaped unharmed from the burning wreckage of an Emirates airliner that had crash-landed in Dubai, Mohamed Basheer Abdul Khadar already considered himself lucky. Then came the call telling him he had won $1m. “I said, ‘Don’t joke!’ ” Khadar, 62, recounted, laughing inside the auto-body repair shop where he works in Dubai. “They said, ‘Yes, you are the winner!’ ” Khadar, an Indian, won the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire sweepstakes on Tuesday with a ticket he bought July 6, just before he boarded an Emirates flight for Kerala State in India for a trip to his hometown, Pallickal. He said the ticket, which cost 1,000 dirham, or about $270, was his 17th attempt to win the prize.<br/>
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Survivor of Dubai crash-landing wins $1m sweepstakes
After he escaped unharmed from the burning wreckage of an Emirates airliner that had crash-landed in Dubai, Mohamed Basheer Abdul Khadar already considered himself lucky. Then came the call telling him he had won $1m. “I said, ‘Don’t joke!’ ” Khadar, 62, recounted, laughing inside the auto-body repair shop where he works in Dubai. “They said, ‘Yes, you are the winner!’ ” Khadar, an Indian, won the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire sweepstakes on Tuesday with a ticket he bought July 6, just before he boarded an Emirates flight for Kerala State in India for a trip to his hometown, Pallickal. He said the ticket, which cost 1,000 dirham, or about $270, was his 17th attempt to win the prize.<br/>
