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                Probe: No Links Among Fires at Black US Churches

   by VOA News

   U.S. federal law enforcement officials said Thursday that they had
   found no links among any of the six recent fires at African-American
   churches in five Southern states.

   The Justice Department said two of the fires were started by natural
   causes and one was an electrical fire.

   Spokeswoman Melanie Newman said, "All of the fires remain under active
   investigation, and federal law enforcement continues to work to
   determine the cause of all of the fires."

   Fears that the church fires might have been racially motivated were
   prompted by the fact that they occurred in the weeks after the killing
   of nine black worshippers at an African-American church in Charleston,
   South Carolina, on June 17.
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