Former gay bar
bombed by Rudolph now gutted by fire

A vacant building in Atlanta that once housed a gay nightclub targeted by convicted serial bomber Eric Rudolph has been gutted by fire. No injuries were reported in the blaze, which broke out Tuesday night, fire officials said. The building once housed the Otherside Lounge.

In 1997 a bomb exploded in a back room of the nightclub, wounding five people. Investigators found and detonated a second bomb hung in shrubbery outside the club. Rudolph was captured in western North Carolina in May 2003.

This year he pleaded guilty to the Otherside Lounge bombing as well as bombings at Centennial Olympic Park and abortion clinics in suburban Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala. The 1996 Olympics bombing killed one person and wounded 111, and the Birmingham bombing killed a police officer and maimed a nurse. Rudolph is serving four life sentences in federal prison. (AP)