Liverpool’s Luis Diaz and his family have been told that ELN guerrillas will free his father, who they had kidnapped last week. (Image: Reuters)
ELN representatives at the negotiations with the Colombian government said that Liverpool striker Luis Diaz’s father Luis Manuel Diaz will be released.
The Colombian government said Friday the ELN guerrilla group would release the father of Liverpool striker Luis Diaz, whom it abducted five days ago in the midst of peace talks with Bogota.
Interior Minister Luis Fernando Velasco told reporters that ELN representatives at the negotiations had indicated to government counterparts “that he will be released.”
He added that “a safe area will have to be agreed” upon for the handover to happen.
The footballer’s mother, Cilenis Marulanda, was rescued hours after the pair were abducted in their home town of Barrancas near the Venezuelan border on Saturday, but his father, Luis Manuel Diaz, has been missing ever since, sparking a massive…