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.