Laos-born man with cancer wins $1.3bn in Powerball

A Laos-born migrant battling crab has won a monolithic $1.3bn (£1bn) connected Powerball - America's lottery game, contention officials person revealed.

They accidental Cheng Saephan, aged 46, bought the fortunate summons for the 7 April gully successful the metropolis of Portland, the north-western Oregon state.

He chose to instrumentality his winnings arsenic a lump sum of $422m aft taxes to beryllium shared evenly with his woman and a friend.

"Now I tin bless my household and prosecute a bully doc for myself," helium said.

"My beingness has been changed," Mr Saephan told CBS affiliate KOIN, revealing that helium had prayed to God for help.

He added that helium present wanted to bargain a imagination household house, and would proceed playing Powerball.

"I mightiness get fortunate again."

CBS is the BBC's media spouse successful America.

Mr Saephan - who has been undergoing chemotherapy for the past 8 years - said that he, his woman and the person had teamed up to bargain much than 20 Powerball tickets for the 7 April draw.

The winning numbers were 22, 27, 44, 52, 69, and the reddish Powerball 9.

Powerball tickets outgo $2 each and are sold successful 45 US states, the District of Columbia, arsenic good arsenic Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

Huge billion-dollar prizes person go much communal arsenic summons prices person been raised.

The crippled has besides been tweaked, with players present choosing 5 numbers from 1 to 69 alternatively of from 1 to 59 nether the erstwhile rules.

Players besides prime the Powerball - their sixth fig - from 1 to 26, alternatively of 1 to 35 arsenic it was previously.

That decreases the accidental of winning the expansive prize from 1 successful 175.2 cardinal to 1 successful 292.2 million.