South Korea today kicked out the leader of a religious sect that claimed it had produced the first cloned human, amid fears he may engage in human-cloning activities during his stay.

The Raelian religion is a little known movement which owes its existence to a French motor racing journalist.

A chemist connected to a group that believes life on Earth was created by extraterrestrials claimed today to have produced the world’s first human clone, a baby girl named Eve.

A sect claims the world’s first cloned human – a girl – has been born. The child was born yesterday by caesarean section and the birth “went very well”, said Brigitte Boisselier, a French chemist and member of the Raelian sect.

A chemist who said her company would soon produce the world’s first human clone – a baby girl genetically identical to her 30-year-old mother – was due to make an announcement today.