UPDATE: The children were found safe in Fairmount City, Illinois, according to St. Charles Police.

No additional details have been released.

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ST. CHARLES —Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for two children who were reportedly abducted in suburban St. Louis, Missouri.

The abduction happened at around 10:30 a.m. Friday in St. Charles. Missouri troopers say the biological father of 1-year-old Alexia Marez and 3-year-old Fernando Marez assaulted the children’s mother and threatened to kill one of them before leaving the scene with the children, a Hispanic man and a woman.

The Amber Alert website identified the suspect as 24-year-old Fernando Marez, a Hispanic man who stands 5-foot-7 and weighs 145 pounds. He was last seen wearing a blue t-shirt, a black vest, dark blue jeans and Champion shoes. He has tattoos of the children’s names on both arms.

Alexia Marez was wearing a white and pink flower onesie and blue pants. Fernando Marez was wearing a blue shirt and grey sweatpants. Both have black hair and are also Hispanic.

They could be in a tan 4-door SUV with a partial Missouri or Illinois license plate number of “E15.” It was last seen headed west from the scene.

Anyone with information should call 911 immediately, or call the St. Charles Police Department at (636) 949-3300.