A massive garda alert is in place this afternoon to find a car that has a five month old baby girl inside it.
Shortly before 2pm today the baby’s mother was standing outside her car in the Gardiner Street area of the north inner city when a male suspect hijacked the vehicle with the baby inside in the back seat.
The vehicle is a silver Nissan Qashqai with a 10 D 21328
registration and is understood to have a dog cage visible in its back window.
The car sped off onto Dorset Street and a major alert is now in place in the northside of the capital.
The suspect is understood to have been wearing dark clothing and a baseball hat.
A garda spokesman said: “An Garda Síochána urgently requests public assistance in locating a missing vehicle, Silver Nissan Qashqai Hatchback, registration number 10-D-21328
“This vehicle was last seen in the Mountjoy Square area of Dublin City Centre at approximately 1:50pm this afternoon.
“Members of the public with any information are asked not to approach the vehicle but to report any information or sighting by calling 999/112.”