A family-of-three have been found living in a ‘house of horrors’ amid hundreds of plastic bottles filled with their own urine.
Police entered their home, in the city of Aktau, southwestern Kazakhstan, after neighbours complained of the unbearable stench.
The parents and their adult son, named as Zhenya, admitted they had been relieving themselves using bottles for a year.
They claimed they had been forced to do so after their utilities were cut off due to unpaid bills.
Police used a crowbar to break in to the squalid apartment after the family refused to open their front door.
Entering the room, they found hundreds of plastic bottles filled with pee and stored on the floor.
They amounted to a total of 1,300 litres, according to local media reports.
Pictures also show a mountain of rotting clothes in the middle of the room.
Neighbours spoke of how the family had turned their home, where they lived among hordes of cockroaches, into a rubbish dump.
Svetlana Nenastyeva, who lives next door, said: ''We think Zhenya's parents damage his life and have a bad influence on him.
''About two years ago he quit his job, switched to a reclusive life then stopped washing.
''This family is a big problem for us. We are tired to live in constant stench coming from their home.”
All three members of the family have now been taken to a local mental health facility for examination.
Their neighbours say they will organise amongst themselves to clean the filthy dwelling.
