Italy waste workers help winner find €1m lottery ticket
- 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.
- A lottery player who accidentally binned a €1m (£857,158) winning-ticket may be the luckiest man in Italy after refuge workers found the missing slip.
Confirmed
- 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.
- A lottery player who accidentally binned a €1m (£857,158) winning-ticket may be the luckiest man in Italy after refuge workers found the missing slip.
Sources: BBC News