Luis Manuel Díaz was seized by armed men at a petrol station on Saturday in his Colombian hometown.
By Vanessa BuschschlüterThe Colombian government says that the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz was kidnapped by left-wing rebels of the National Liberation Army .The player's mother was left behind in a car by the kidnappers as police closed in, but the gunmen dragged away his father.Police had originally said that a criminal gang was most likely to blame.
It is most active in the border region with Venezuela where Luis Manuel Díaz and his wife Cilenis Marulanda live.Cilenis Marulanda took part in a march to demand that her husband be freedThe couple was accosted by the gunmen as they had stopped at a petrol station in their hometown of Barrancas, in the northern province of La Guajira.
They have found two motorbikes and a car they think were used in the kidnapping but have yet to pinpoint Luis Manuel Díaz's whereabouts., the head of the government delegation negotiation with the ELN, Otty Patiño, demanded the "immediate release of Luis Manuel Díaz.
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