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Footballer Luis Díaz reunited with father after kidnapping

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter

BBC News

Colombian football star Luis Díaz has been reunited with his father Luis Manuel Díaz who was released by rebels after holding him hostage for 12 days.

The Liverpool striker and his father cried as they hugged each other for the first time after the kidnapping ordeal.

Luis Manuel Díaz's abduction by the National Liberation Army (ELN) caused outrage in Colombia and abroad.

The ELN said it had kidnapped the 58-year-old and his wife for ransom.

The group quickly released his wife, Cilenis Marulanda, as police closed in but led the amateur football coach into the nearby mountains at gunpoint.