Victoria Police said a man entered a residential property on Springfield Road in Blackburn sometime on Monday morning while a woman and her two children were inside.

He then stole the family’s black 2014 Mercedes Benz C200 sedan with the registration BEQ 882.

Security footage then showed him leaving the property just after 8.45am – the vehicle was last seen driving east along Springfield Road.

Police were called to the property about 8.55am for a welfare check and located the woman, but the two children, a girl aged 5 and a boy aged 3, were missing. Both children were of Asian appearance.

The man was described as having dark skin, wearing a black hooded jumper and a face mask at the time of the incident.

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