Letter bomb at IMF's Paris office injures employee

Paris

A FEMALE employee of the International Monetary Fund was injured in the face and arms on Thursday when a letter bomb posted to the world lender's Paris office blew up as she opened it, police said. The explosion was caused by a homemade device, said the head of the French capital's police force. "It was something that was fairly homemade," police chief Michel Cadot told reporters.

Mr Cadot said there had been some recent telephone threats but it was not clear if these were linked to the incident at the IMF's offices. A police source said the woman who opened the letter suffered burns on her face and arms but her life was not in danger. Separately, at least two people were injured in a shooting at a high school in the small southern French town of Grasse, a police source said.