Another African-American church has been destroyed by fire again in the US

Another African-American church which was once targeted by the Ku Klux Klan has been destroyed by fire again, making it the latest in a series of blazes at black churches across the US south.

Authorities are still trying to determine the cause of the fire in Greeleyville, South Carolina, but early findings suggest it was not arson.

The FBI is investigating several fires at black churches in recent days.

Officials has said that at least three of those blazes were intentionally set, officials say.

However, officials said there is no evidence as of yet that the fires are linked and no one was hurt in the fire and investigators plan to return to the scene on Wednesday.

After hearing the news, Eddie Woods Jr, a local councilman, rushed to the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal church late Tuesday.

"That was a tough thing to see," Mr Woods told the AP news agency. "It is hurting those people again. But we're going to rebuild. If this was someone, they need to know that hate won't stop us again."

The fires came about a week after nine black churchgoers were shot and killed in Charleston, South Carolina in what police called a racially motivated attack.

Authorities in South Carolina cautioned that a storm that swept through the area on Tuesday night may have been the cause.Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal had been rebuilt after an arson in 1995

But others suspected arson because the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal church has been targeted before.

Officials said there is no evidence as of yet that the fires are linked and no one was hurt in the fire and investigators plan to return to the scene on Wednesday.

In 1995, members of the Ku Klux Klan burned the church to the ground. It was one of a number of racially motivated attacks on black churches in the mid-1990s.

The church was rebuilt and then-President Bill Clinton commemorated its reopening.