10th Alabama church burns

Firefighters from several cities helped fight the blaze Saturday evening in Beaverton, a town of 200 people about 90 miles northwest of Birmingham.

A Lamar County Sheriff's Department dispatcher said police are still trying to determine what caused the fire at the Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church in northwest Alabama.

The Beaverton church is the fifth with a predominantly white congregation to burn in the recent string of fires. Five churches with predominantly black congregations have also been set ablaze in the past week in central and western Alabama. Nobody has been injured in any of the fires.

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Investigators have said arson was the cause of seven fires. Arson also is suspected in the other two.