World’s dirtiest man dies after taking his first bath

The world’s dirtiest man record holder Amou Haji passed away at the age of 94, barely a few months after hitting the shower for the first time in 60 years.

According to the Guardian, Haji, who was an Iranian died on Sunday in the village of Dejgah in the southern province of Fars.

This comes after local villagers convinced him to take a bath.

Although he was covered in soot, and pus and living in a cinder block shack, villagers said he had not bathed with soap and water for more than 60 years as he had experienced an “emotional setback in his youth” that led him to refuse to clean up.

It is also reported that he would eat roadkill and smoke animal dung. Haji believed that cleanliness would make him sick.

In a 2014 interview given to the Tehran Times, he shared that he mainly ate dead animals and particularly liked porcupine meat.

He drank 5 litres of water a day, cut his hair by burning it over a fire, and smoked countless cigarettes gifted to him by villagers.

Haji also had a pipe, which he filled with dried animal faeces as tobacco.

After his death, the unofficial record could go to an Indian man who also had not bathed for much of his life.