A lottery player who accidentally binned a €1m (£857,158) winning-ticket may be the luckiest man 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 his numbers and being told it was "non-payable". The man only realised he threw away a winning ticket after a relative pointed out the numbers he always played had been drawn. Finally after a two-day search, the winning ticket was reportedly found by a waste worker on Tuesday morning. "It was in a hole-ridden bag along with other damaged tickets: this was one of the few intact ones," Toscano told Ansa.