A west Belfast woman's husband and daughter have been held hostage while she was forced to take cash from her place of work at the Park Centre.
The victims of the so-called tiger kidnapping in the Andersontown Road area in the early hours of Tuesday morning were physically uninjured, but left badly shaken by their ordeal.
It is understood a number of masked men were behind the plot.
The woman's car was later found abandoned in the Beechview Park area of west Belfast.
Detectives are appealing for information and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who observed a grey coloured Fiat Punto in the Ballymurphy area early on Tuesday morning.
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