Queensland Police issued an urgent plea to help locate missing baby from Cairns hospital

Queensland police issued an urgent plea to help locate a newborn baby but she has since been located.

Queensland Police have located a newborn baby that was reported missing from Cairns Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

At about 12.30pm it is believed a woman took the girl, who is only hours old and is understood to still be in the greater Cairns area.

“The girl was found safe and well with a 31-year-old woman in Cairns,” police said.

The baby went missing from Cairns Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Originally published as Queensland Police issued an urgent plea to help locate missing baby from Cairns hospital