Three-week-old baby girl snatched at shopping mall

A mother yesterday made a tearful plea to a couple who snatched her three-week-old baby in an underground car park at a shopping mall.

Police are searching for a man and a woman in their mid-30s who sprayed 27-year-old Anita Ciancio with pepper spray before snatching the baby in the Australian southern city of Melbourne on Saturday night.

Police released footage from a closed circuit security camera of a couple pictured entering the car park and were seeking them for questioning.