Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group on Thursday freed the daddy of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz, 12 days after kidnapping him, in line with stay TV footage. After being handed over by the rebels to a humanitarian mission, Luis Manuel Diaz arrived by helicopter within the northeastern metropolis of Valledupar, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) from his hometown of Barrancas the place he was kidnapped along with his spouse on October 28. She was rescued the identical day. “Long live Freedom and Peace,” President Gustavo Petro wrote on X, previously Twitter, after the discharge. The Bishops Conference of Colombia, concerned in negotiating the handover, launched {a photograph} of Diaz in a wooded space with a lady taking his very important indicators.

The 26-year-old winger’s father and mom Cilenis Marulanda had been kidnapped by armed males on bikes at a fuel station of their dwelling city.

Marulanda was rescued hours later and an enormous search operation by floor and air was launched for her husband, with greater than 250 troopers concerned.

The ELN, which is in peace negotiations with Petro’s authorities, later acknowledged one in every of its models was behind the kidnapping, which it described as a “mistake.”

On Sunday, Diaz begged the ELN to free his father.

“I ask the ELN for the prompt release of my father, and I ask international organizations to intercede for his freedom,” Diaz stated on X.

“Every second, every minute our anguish grows,” the younger footballer added.

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