The department’s lottery companies revealed this Tuesday that they had to disable number 5121 following one large number of bettors came out in droves to play that combinationwhich coincides with the registration of the plane that crashed last Monday, November 21, in the Belén Rosales neighborhood of Medellín.
Juan Guillermo Cataño Bedoya, commercial vice president of Grupo Réditos, owner of the Gana brand, specified that the company had to take the measure following that number was matched.
“Gana deeply regrets the accident that occurred in the city with the plane 5121, in which 8 people died. Faced with this incident, many of the gamblers from the department of Antioquia they went out to play 5121 taking over the total bets of the day”, Cataño explained.
As explained by that company, the limitation had to be implemented for reasons of corporate responsibility, seeking to protect the reserve that guarantees the awarding of that combination.
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However, Cataño added that bettors can continue to play with other combinations while this number is enabled once more in the future.
In the aircraft accident, a Piper PA31 that broke into three and then exploded, the pilot Aladino Valencia and co-pilot Sergio Guevara Delgado lost their lives, as well as passengers Nicolás Alberto Jiménez Alzate, Melissa Pérez Cuadros, Jorge Mario Cantillo Martínez , Dubán Ovalles Quintero, Anthony Mosquera Blanquiceth and Pedro Pablo Serna.
It should be remembered that this is not the first time that bettors have gone out to try their luck with numbers associated with news events or occurrences of this type of accident in the country.
Only last August, in Bogotá, the biggest prize of the Bogotá lottery fell back on combination 1108which matches with the lot in which the mortal remains of singer Diomedes Díaz in Valledupar.
At that time it was learned that nearly 4,000 Colombians gambled for that number and won, repeating an event that had already occurred in November 2015 with that same number.
Likewise, in August 2020, numerous lottery buyers tried their luck with the prisoner number of former president Álvaro Uribewho at that time had been deprived of his liberty in the middle of the judicial process that was being carried out once morest him for alleged bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud.
Other combinations that are often used are the 0716, which coincides with the day on which the Virgen del Carmen is commemoratedor the 039which alludes to the song by composer Rafael Escalonaamong others.
