Italy: Garbage workers help woman find €1 million jackpot
A woman who won €1 million mistakenly threw her lottery ticket in a trash bin in Bitonto, southern Italy — prompting her local sanitation company to launch an hourslong search.
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Garbage workers in the city of Bitonto, Italy recovered a €1 million ($1.15 million) lottery ticket, after having to search through an entire truck full of trash.
Waste management company SANB administrator Roberto Nicola Toscano told AFP news agency that the ticket was found "miraculously still in one piece."
Toscano received the panicked call from the woman who had won the big prize and lost it.
The unnamed woman entered the Saturday lottery and on Sunday she went to check her ticket's result at her local shop.
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