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A Kenyan judge on Wednesday ordered cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 30 associates to undergo mental health evaluations before being charged with the murder of 191 children whose bodies have been exhumed since last April from the Shakahola forest. Authorities say Mackenzie, the head of the Good News International Church, ordered his followers in southeastern Kenya to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended. A lawyer for Mackenzie, who has been in custody since police started unearthing bodies in the forest, has said the self-styled p...

Psychiatrists will assess whether the man accused of 400 deaths is fit to stand trial.

More charges to follow.

Paul Mackenzie and his followers have been blamed for the deaths of 429 members of his Good News International Church.

Doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 30 of his followers were presented in a Kenyan court in the coastal town of Malindi on Wednesday to face charges of murdering 191 children. Mackenzie and the other suspects did not enter pleas because High Court Judge Mugure Thande granted a request from prosecutors that they undergo mental assessments and return to court on Feb. 6. The remains of 180 of the 191 dead children have not been identified, according to the prosecution's charge sheet.