Four children have been found safe and well after being abducted from a property in North Queensland.

Police issued an amber alert after four children – aged three, four, seven and eight – were taken from a property in The Leap north of Mackay at about 11.30am yesterday.

28-year-old Joshua Carter, a caucasian man with a shaved head and a bushy beard, was seen with them and is yet to be found.

Carter also has multiple face and body tattoos – including Joker-themed facial tattoos.

Nine Reporter Jess Millward told Ben Fordham he was known to the children.

“The exact relationship isn’t being revealed by police as of yet.”

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Queensland Police Inspector Regan Drahm told Ben there is a chance they may have travelled into another state.

“We are considering that … but we are concentrating our searches as much as we can on known areas.”

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