A suspect was charged with lighting one of the wildfires that killed more than 180 people in Australia last weekend.
Australian Broad- casting Corp reported the man was charged in court on three counts: arson causing death, lighting a wildfire and with possession of child pornography.
The man did not appear in the Morwell Magistrates Court, where he was ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation.
The arson charges are connected to a blaze known as the Churchill fire, one of hundreds that raged through Victoria state last Saturday, killing more than 181 people and destroying almost 2,000 homes.
Meanwhile, survivors of the wildfires returned to their properties to find twisted metal and blackened debris where their homes once stood.
Thousands of mostly volunteer firefighters were still battling more than a dozen fires across Victoria state.
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