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Luis Diaz has broken his silence on social media following the kidnapping of his father in his native Colombia.
The Liverpool star's mother, who was taken at the same time over the weekend, is now free but authorities have stepped up the search for his missing parent. Police have been carrying out aerial patrols across the Perija mountain range, which straddles the border with Venezuela and is covered by a forest.
As the search goes on for Luis Manuel Diaz, son Luis has shared details of a vigil with his 4.5million Instagram followers. Meanwhile, Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders said the club was “doing the right thing” by Diaz, who was left out of the squad for Sunday's victory over Nottingham Forest on Sunday.
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“We try to support him now as much as we can – lot of things out of our hands,” said Lijnders ahead the Reds' Carabao Cup tie at Bournemouth on Wednesday.
“I think and I feel that it’s only for Liverpool Football Club that the players know we’re doing the right thing. It’s not for me to say what we’re doing for Luis Diaz.
“As long as he knows that we’re doing all the right things and we pray. The whole club is behind him, he has that feeling then for me, it’s right.
“The authorities are doing everything, everything we hear is that they’re trying everything, that’s the most important thing that is family are OK.”
Police have offered a reward worth around £39,000 for information leading to the rescue of Diaz Snr. Colonel Giovanni Montanez, director of the elite military unit against kidnapping and extortion, told Colombia’s Blu Radio that “so far no demands have been made… no calls have been received” for ransom.
According to reports in the country, police suggest they have an idea who is behind the kidnapping.
“Without naming names, because we do not have that capacity, we have clarity of people who have been linked to the incident,” the deputy director of the Colombian Police, General Alejandro Zapata, is reported as saying by newspaper El Tiempo.
“When an event like this occurs, this is not spontaneous, there is prior planning, people who perhaps drag people to a point so that others can move them.”
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