A representative of Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas said Thursday the group will free the father of Liverpool star Luis Díaz, days after kidnapping him in northern Colombia, Reuters reported.
Colombia's government said Thursday that the ELN was responsible for the weekend kidnapping of the father of the Colombia national team forward.
Diaz's father will be released "as soon as possible," ELN representative Juan Carlos Cuellar told a community meeting, in a video clip shared by the ELN with Reuters.
The peace delegation of the government, which is currently in negotiations with ELN, said in a statement earlier Thursday that it was "officially aware" that the kidnapping had been "perpetrated by a unit that belongs to ELN.