Italy waste workers help winner find €1m lottery ticket - BBC News

The player only realised they binned the life-changing ticket after family told them the numbers he played for years had been drawn.

Image source, Roberto Nicola ToscanoImage caption, Waste boss Roberto Nicola Toscano said the story was "nothing short of miraculous"

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.