Arson Suspected in Fires at 2 Churches
Arsonists set a fire in a church with a predominantly black congregation in Tillman, S.C., federal officials said, and a blaze that destroyed a church with a white congregation was under investigation. No injuries were reported in either fire. A fire at the Arm Oak Baptist Church in Jasper County caused minor damage to pews near a window, said Charles Friedrichs of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office in Charleston. In central South Carolina’s Sumter County, a fire destroyed the Trinity United Methodist Church in the Shiloh community, police said.
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