A man from Shanghai was sentenced to four years in jail for setting a lottery kiosk on fire where he lost over six million yuan (US$950,000) in seven years, according to a news website report.
Xu Chao, 41, who used to work for a property management company, started to buy lottery tickets in 2010 and become obsessed, spending at least 20,000 yuan each time, Thepaper.cn reported.
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