BOMB PLANTED IN MAILBOX AT SOROS COMPOUND

NEW YORK A bomb was found in a mailbox at the suburban New York home of George Soros, pictured, the liberal billionaire philanthropist.

Federal agents safely detonated the device after being summoned Monday by a security officer at the sprawling, wooded compound, about 80 kilometres north of Manhattan. It was not clear whether the 88-year-old Soros was home at the time.

Officials described it as resembling a pipe bomb and was in a package placed in a mailbox outside the gates of the compound.