Superintendent says this is the first time such a large amount of tickets, to be sold in Macau and mainland China, have been seized in single operation

Each ticket contains two Mark Six entries worth HK$20 for Thursday night’s lottery draw

Hong Kong customs will have to check more than 16,000 Mark Six lottery tickets for possible winners at Thursday night’s draw after they were seized along with HK$10 million (US$1.3 million) worth of electronic products being smuggled out of the city on a Macau-bound cargo vessel.