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A PSNI spokesperson said it was reported that a delivery driver had exited his vehicle, a white Vauxhall Agila, in the Donegall Place area of the city at around 3.50am. His partner and her young baby were in the back seat. The PSNI spokesperson said two men approached the car on foot and one got into the driver’s seat and drove away. Advertisement The second man appeared to try to stop him but was unsuccessful. A short distance away, close to Fountain Lane in the city, the man turned and held what the woman believed to be a broken bottle or piece of broken glass to the head of the young baby. He then told her to get out of the car. When she and the baby did so, he drove towards City Hall and onto Chichester Street. The vehicle was later found in Upper Stanfield Street.” The PSNI described it as an “absolutely shocking incident and an extremely distressing ordeal for the victims”. “They have been left shaken, but thankfully otherwise uninjured,” added the PSNI spokesperson. 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