'World's dirtiest man' who died after first bath in 60 years 

Amou Haji, popularly known as the world's dirtiest man, died at the age of 94, a few months after his first wash.

The Iranian national did not take a shower for more than half a century as he believed staying dirty kept him alive for so long.

Haji, covered in soot, lived in a small hut that often resembled a grave in the Iranian desert close to Dejgah village.

Tooltip According to the Tehran Times, Haji would eat porcupine meat, smoke cigarettes and pipes filled with animal excrement, and believed cleanliness would make him ill.

Tooltip His diet consisted of rotten meat and unsanitary water drunk from an old oil can, according to the Iranian news agency, IRNA.

Tooltip Attempts to bathe him or provide him with clean water made him sad. But villagers persuaded Haji to take a bath a few months ago.