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)