Fires at four more Alabama churches

Who would do this and why? I just really do not understand. All 9 churches were baptist. There is no limiting to black churches or white churches. They are just churches.

Fires at four more Alabama churches

Fires at four more Alabama churches
Arson suspected after earlier fires at five churches

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Fires were reported at four more rural Baptist churches Tuesday following rash of suspected arsons that burned five others south of Birmingham last week, a state official said.

Ragan Ingram, a spokesman for the state insurance agency that oversees fire investigations, said two of the churches were destroyed. All four fires were reported Tuesday morning and were believed to started overnight, he said.

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The four fires reported Tuesday were in three sparsely populated counties in west Alabama near the Mississippi line. Dancy First Baptist Church near Aliceville and Spring Valley Baptist Church near Emelle were damaged, Ingram said. The other two, Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church near Boligee and Gallilee Baptist in Panola, were destroyed.

In the past five years, Alabama has had 59 church fires, 19 of those ruled arsons, Ingram said.

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