Italy waste workers help winner find €1m lottery ticket
The player only realised they binned the life-changing ticket after family told them the numbers he played for years had been drawn.
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A lottery player who accidentally binned a €1m (£857,158) winning-ticket may be the luckiest person in Italy after refuse workers found the missing slip.
The anonymous player disposed of the ticket in a shop in Bitonto, southern Italy, after checking their numbers and being told it was "non-payable".
The person only realised they threw away a winning ticket after a relative pointed out the numbers they always played had been drawn.
It sparked a two-day search through a "mountain of waste" which had been collected by a bin lorry, the head of the refuse company, Roberto Nicola Toscano, told Italian news agency Ansa.
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