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 was in a hole-ridden bag along with other damaged tickets: this was one of the few intact ones," Toscano told Ansa. Toscano told BBC News that he was not authorised to reveal any details on the identity of the winner.