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Four female bandits, all wearing bikinis, ran from a street in the tiny town of South Johnstone (population just under 500) 10km south-west of Innisfail, after a late-night Christmas light robbery.

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The scantily dressed lasses nabbed 30 solar lights, including three candy canes, from two Goroka Close homes before they were disturbed by a neighbour who chased them down the street, police said.

The group then fled across a nearby football oval and vanished.

An Innisfail police spokeswoman said the neighbour had woken up and spotted the four women, wearing only bikinis, skulking around his neighbour's front lawn late on Sunday night.

"The victim's neighbour woke up about 1am to dogs barking and saw them in the front yard," she said.

"He yelled out and that's when they run off. They were spotted running off across the football oval."

The neighbour discovered the following morning that 14 lights, including the candy canes, had been snatched.

The victim then mentioned it to another neighbour who realised that they'd been hit too and 16 lights were missing.

The group searched the area for the missing lights.

"One of them walked across the football oval and found one stand for solar lights,'' the police spokeswoman said.

The 30 lights remain missing though and police are investigating the theft.

They are yet to identify the offenders and have called for public assistance.

The witness was unable to describe the group, other than that they were sporting swimwear.