Letter bomb explodes at France office of IMF, injuring 1

A letter bomb explodes at the French office of the International Monetary Fund, lightly injuring one person, according to Paris police.

Staff from the IMF office are being evacuated and armed military officers and police are guarding the area, in a chic district of western Paris. The World Bank office in France is in the same compound.

No other damage is reported in the explosion, according to a police official who was not authorized to be publicly named. It is unclear who sent the explosive.

The incident comes a day after a package arrived at the German Finance Ministry containing low-grade explosives, like those used in firecrackers. Mailroom employees at the ministry quickly identified the package as suspicious and called in explosives experts, who destroyed it with a controlled explosion.