Amou Haji, an Iranian, who is famously known as the World’s dirtiest man for avoiding bathing in decades, is reportedly dead.
Haji is said to have died on Sunday at the age of 94 years in the village of Dejgah in the southern province of Fars.
The elderly man had not taken a shower for more than 60 years to avoid being sick. According to his village mates, he encountered an emotional setback during his youthful days that made him avoid ‘water and soap.’
His death however comes just months after villagers took him to a bathroom and washed him.
The Iranian “would eat roadkill, smoke a pipe filled with animal excrement” according to a report by Tehran Times in 2014. Photos taken of him show his face filled with soot. Others showed him smoking multiple cigarettes at a time. He lived in a cinder-block shack and was single.
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Following his death, the World’s dirtiest record that is yet to be formalized could go to an Indian man who has not bathed for the better part of his life.
According to The Guardian, Kailash “Kalau” Singh has not visited the bathroom for more than 30 years.
Kalau has avoided the bathroom in a bid to help end the troubles that his motherland has been facing. Instead of water and soap, he bathes by “fire”.
“Every evening as villagers gather, Kalau … lights a bonfire, smokes marijuana and stands on a leg praying to Lord Shiva,” the country’s local media reported.
“It’s just like using water to take a bath. Fire bath helps kill all the germs and infections in the body,” Kalau said.
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