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This sickening footage shows a huge bed bug infestation - where a married couple had been sleeping in a bed teeming with hundreds of insects for the last six years.

The video - shot by pest control cleaners - shows bugs crawling out of walls and all over bedding covered in insect eggs.

Live bugs scuttle all over the blankets and mattress while blood stains on the bed frame show where the hosts were feasted on by the unwelcome guests.

The couple had been sleeping in the bed until the night before the footage was shot.

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The flat is part of a complex in London with 135 units.

It became so infested that the beg bugs spread to 13 other flats in the block, and the unfortunate pest control specialists were tasked with deep cleaning the root of the problem.

One of the team, Peter Bowers-Davis, said the infestation was "one of the worst that I've seen" and said the number of insects could be into the tens of thousands.

The footage began with the men pointing out cracks in the wall that have become "packed with bed bugs" which stream out of the wall and towards the bed.

The mattress and bedding were also covered in fecal matter from the insects and, according to Peter, there was "every life cycle you can imagine here."

(Image: Storyful/Porter's Pest Control LTD)

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(Image: Storyful/Porter's Pest Control LTD) (Image: Storyful/Porter's Pest Control LTD)

Bugs can also be seen teeming in the ceiling, where a bulge shows where colonies have gathered, and over furniture in the room

Insects can be seen sitting out in the open, as the room is so infested there was nowhere left for them to hide.

The damage inflicted by the bed bugs is clear to see in the footage.

A duvet cover, once white, was stained brown, while the uncovered mattress was full of holes and dark stains.

A bin bag placed under the mattress a few days before by the resident was already heaving with large bugs.

Both men wore coveralls and used duct tape to secure their hands and feet because of the intensity of the infestation.

One of the team Mark said: "This is what these poor residents of the building are are up against. This is actually where someone was living."