BREAKING: Woman vanishes with baby after stranger helps her give birth in Walthamstow underpass

A woman has vanished with her newborn baby after giving birth in an east London underpass.

The mother, believed to be called Anne Marie, was seen being picked up by two people in a blue Transit van after giving birth with the help of a Good Samaritan in Walthamstow, London on Wednesday morning.

Police are now desperate to locate the woman and her baby.

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