Washington, May 31: The Federal Bureau of Investigation today arrested Eric Rudolph, accused of planting a bomb that killed two people and injured scores more at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, an FBI spokesman said. Rudolph, 36, was arrested in North Carolina, according to FBI spokesman John Iannarelli.
He had made the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives list on accusations that he had also planted bombs at a gay nightclub and an abortion clinic.
Local police in Murphy, North Carolina initially apprehended Rudolph at a municipal trash dump today. Fingerprints confirmed his identity, Iannarelli said.
Rudolph is charged with bombing a clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing a police officer and critically wounding a nurse.
He is also charged with setting off two bombs at the Otherside Lounge, a popular gay club in downtown Atlanta.
In all, Rudolph injured more than 150 people, the FBI said in a statement.
After the bombings, Rudolph was the object of an intense manhunt through the wooded, rural areas of the southern United States. Authorities combed the hills of North Carolina and said they had found evidence that Rudolph had camped there.
He sometimes worked as an itinerant carpenter, roofer and handyman, the FBI said.
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