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agent, said the memory of the second explosion at the abortion clinic had made agents extremely wary when they arrived at the nightclub. Killorin said that bomb was detonated several hours later, leaving a crater in the parking lot. Shortly after arriving on the scene, members of the Atlanta Police Department's special weapons and tactics team found the second bomb in a parking lot near a low brick wall. spokesman, said the first bomb had been planted on the nightclub's outdoor patio. Armstrong described ''a tremendous boom, like a circus cannon.'' ''She rolled her sleeve up and had a spike nail through her arm.'' Ms. ''Several customers thought a lady had been shot,'' said Rhonda Armstrong, a bartender at the club. Campbell said, and employees and patrons at the bar apparently first believed a gun had been fired. The explosion on Friday occurred about 9:45 P.M., Mr. Mayor Bill Campbell said Friday night's bombing was ''eerily reminiscent of last summer and last month.'' He added, ''We clearly believe that we are dealing with a deranged killer, but one who is very clever as well.''
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''We've structured this to absolutely include the possibility that we are looking at a serial bomber,'' he said.
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Jack Killorin, the Atlanta director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said the bombings at the abortion clinic and the nightclub would be investigated by the same multiagency task force. ''We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.'' ''We all recognize that there are similarities here,'' said Woody Johnson, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s Atlanta office. No arrests have been made in any of the bombings.Īt a news conference this morning, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and city officials did not discount the possibility that the bombings are related, although they said it was too early to determine whether the bombs had been made in the same way. The explosions at the nightclub and the abortion clinic also bore some resemblance to the July 27 bombing in Centennial Olympic Park in that all of the bombs apparently contained nails and other shrapnel.