Luis Diaz has missed Liverpool’s Premier League match against Nottingham Forest on Sunday after his parents were kidnapped in Colombia.
The forward’s parents were taken hostage on Saturday night near to Barrancas, with local reports saying that they were taken by ‘assailants on motorcycles’. Colombian president Gustovo Petro confirmed that Diaz’s mother, Cilenis Marulanda, was found overnight, but his father, Luis Manuel Diaz, was still being held captive.
Local police and military were ‘put into urgent action in order to find the location of these people’.
The player was expected to be a part of the Reds side to take on Forest on Sunday afternoon, but understandably he was nowhere to be seen on the team sheet when they were announced ah hour before kick-off.
