UPDATE 1-Explosive device found at home of George Soros -police

Authorities responded to the home in Katonah, New York after receiving a call about a suspicious package at about 3:45 p.m., the Town of Bedford Police Department said in a statement.

An explosive device found in a mailbox outside the New York residence of billionaire financier George Soros on Monday, police said, and according to the New York Times, it was detonated by bomb squad technicians in a nearby wooded area.

Soros is a target of a hostile media campaign by the nationalist government in his native Hungary and a hate figure for right-wing campaigners in eastern Europe and the United States.

Authorities responded to the home in Katonah, New York after receiving a call about a suspicious package at about 3:45 p.m., the Town of Bedford Police Department said in a statement.

An employee at the residence opened the package, revealing what appeared to be an explosive device. The employee put the package in a wooded area and called authorities, police said.

Bomb squad technicians arrived and detonated it, a police official told the New York Times.

Online records showed that Soros resides at the address. He was not home at the time, the New York Times reported.