Australian police were today engaged in a desperate search for a three-year-old girl who they believe was snatched from her family home in remote southeast Queensland overnight.
Chloe Campbell was reported missing just before 7am on Thursday from her home on Ridgeway Street, Childers - a town of roughly 1,500 people.
Police issued a 'child abduction alert' shortly after 9am and requested the message be broadcast on local radios every 15 minutes.
'She is wearing yellow pants with love hearts on them and a white-coloured shirt with butterflies and bees pictured on the front.
'Chloe could also be carrying a blue soft toy and a grey blanket.'
The disappearance has already drawn comparisons with that of British toddler Madeleine McCann who went missing from her parents' apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal in May 2007. She was also three-years-old at the time.
In Childers - roughly 50km south of Bundaberg - a desperate search is underway for Chloe as State Emergency Services volunteers join police in scouring the locale.
Melissa Small, a 'close family friend' of the Campbells, told News Corp the toddler's window was left open and that alarm bells were raised when her parents discovered she wasn't in her bed this morning.
'The parents put the kids to bed last night. They went to sleep about one o’clock in the morning after watching TV. They have woken up at seven o’clock and (Chloe) was not in her bed,' she told reporters.
'There’s a footprint on the roof of the car to get through to the window.
'The window was open and her blanket and teddy bear, a grey blanket and a blue teddy bear, has been taken with her.'
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