Garbage workers in southern Italy have recovered a €1 million ($1.15 million) winning lottery ticket after its owner mistakenly threw it into a trash bin, prompting an extensive search through a truckload of waste.
The unnamed woman, from the city of Bitonto, had played her regular Saturday lottery numbers before visiting a local shop on Sunday to check the result, according to DW News on Wednesday.
According to AFP and Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the lottery terminal displayed the message “non-payable” — a standard notification indicating that the prize was too large to be redeemed at the retail outlet.
Misinterpreting the message as meaning the ticket had not won, she threw it into a rubbish bin.
Roberto Nicola Toscano, administrator of waste management company SANB, said the woman later realised her mistake after a family member recognised that her numbers — 2, 4, 8, 10 and 51 — matched
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