A parcel exploded after it was opened Thursday morning at the Paris office of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), local police said.
“A person was injured by a suspicious booby-trapped parcel that contained an explosive,” the Paris police department tweeted.
An IMF staffer received injuries to her face and hands, Paris police prefect Michel Cadot said, as quoted by a local broadcaster BFMTV.
He said the parcel had been sent by post and described the contents as a “pyrotechnic device, a big firecracker … It was not a bomb, but rather something artificial.” Sources told the broadcaster the cracker was a 30-cm-long (11.8-inch) cylinder.
The Paris police department said judicial police had launched in investigation into the incident. It said the injured employee had been taken to hospital.
Meanwhile French President Francois Hollande said the explosion at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) office in Paris is a terrorist act.
“We faced a terrorist act, there is no other word when it comes to an explosive device in a parcel,” Hollande said on a visit to Toulon.
