By 1news.co.nz

A search is underway to find a newborn baby taken from a Queensland hospital and believed to be at significant risk.

Baby (file photo). (Source: istock.com)

The one-day-old baby girl was taken from Ipswich Hospital yesterday, Queensland Police said.

Two women were seen taking the baby and putting her into a white Suzuki Liana.

The car was last seen leaving Charlotte St in Basin Pocket at 2.30pm on Tuesday.

Investigators don’t believe the kidnap was random.

“It wasn’t just random strangers who walked into the hospital to take a baby,” a Queensland Police spokeswoman told AAP.

An amber alert has been issued.