🚨 Community Alert for Dublin 1.

Classic Hits is reporting that last week there was a child abduction attempt of a 3-year-old boy near Busáras at the junction of of Amiens Street and Beresford Place while being accompanied by his mother who also had an infant in a pram.

The men who grabbed the boy were on foot and fled when confronted by passersby.

Gardaí have said the real target of the abduction may have been the infant with the 3-year-old serving as a distraction.

A few days ago the mother says that a man she described as Arab or Middle-Eastern came over and kissed her son, who is blonde, on the forehead while she was shopping on Talbot St. Her son spotted the same man the following day and pointed him out to his mother. It's unknown if these incidents are related.

Gardaí are looking into CCTV footage and taken DNA evidence from the child's clothing but no arrests have been reported so far.

Classic Hits heard that the abduction of boys with blonde hair is common across Europe.