The parents of a Liverpool player were kidnapped by armed men riding motorcycles in Colombia. The mother has been found and released unharmed, but the father remains missing. Police and military are conducting coordinated operations to locate him.
were stopped by kidnappers when heading towards their home neighbourhood of Los Olivos in the town of Barrancas - where the Liverpool player is from.reported that armed men riding motorcycles intercepted their vehicle. However, another version of events claimed Diaz's parents were watching a game when kidnappers arrived and took them away.
Colonel Geovanni Cristancho, director of the Gaula branch of the Colombian police that handles kidnap extortion and hostage rescue, was immediately sent to take charge of the situation.It was reported that military and police also joined forces and began carrying out coordinated operations in a bid to find the parents. Police checkpoints for identifying those travelling on motorcycles in the area were established.
Due to the pressure from the police and military operations, Diaz's mother was later found and released unharmed. But the Liverpool star's father remains missing. A source told Semana: "We already have the mother, she is in good health, scared, but she is fine. They took the father away on a motorcycle, they took him out of the car and took him along the trails there.
In England, Luis Diaz would have been in line to start for Liverpool in Sunday's Premier League clash with Nottingham Forest. But with his father still in the hands of kidnappers, his involvement in something as trivial as a football match seems unlikely in the circumstances.
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