Colombian President Gustavo Petro has confirmed that the mother of Liverpool’s Colombian winger Luis Diaz has been rescued from kidnappers but the search for his father continues.
The President posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday that Diaz’s mother was rescued in Barrancas in the northern part of the country.
“We continue in the search for the father,” added Petro.
Also, the Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office said they had been working intensely on the case.
“From the moment the Attorney General’s Office learned of the kidnapping of the parents of the Colombian player Luis Díaz, in the Barrancas sector of La Guajira, a specialised team of prosecutors, police and military personnel have been working to find “the location of these people, clarify the facts and find those responsible”, the office said on X.
According to local media reports, Luis Manuel Diaz and Cilenis Marulanda were at a service station in La Guajira area when armed men on motorbikes whisked them away.
Also General William Salamanca, the director of the police, intelligence agents and other police departments in the area has been deployed to deal with the issue.
The police are “already involved, right now, in carrying out checkpoints, identifying people on motorbikes, private public service vehicles … for the recovery of the two kidnapped people, the father and mother of the footballer Luis Diaz”, Salamanca told Colombian media earlier on Saturday.
The Governor of La Guajira Diala Wilches condemned the kidnapping and appealed for their return.