Luís Manuel
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Luís Manuel Life story
Footballer Luis Díaz reunited with father after kidnapping
...By Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsColombian 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...
Luis Díaz's father speaks for first time since kidnap
...By Malu CursinoBBC NewsLuis Manuel Díaz, the father of Liverpool striker Luis Diaz, has spoken publicly for the first time since being freed by a Colombian guerrilla group...
Footballer Luis Díaz's father freed by Colombian guerrillas
... Luis Manuel Díaz was handed over to United Nations and Catholic church officials by members of the National Liberation Army (ELN)...
Footballer Díaz begs father's ELN kidnappers to free him
... " The Colombian government has deployed hundreds of police and soldiers have been mobilised to free the footballer s father, Luis Manuel Díaz...
Footballer Díaz's father 'kidnapped by rebels'
... Luis Manuel Díaz was seized at gunpoint along with his wife on Saturday...
Luis Díaz: Colombians march for release of footballer's father
... Luis Manuel Díaz was kidnapped at gunpoint along with his wife on Saturday...
Mexico truck crash: At least 49 migrants killed as trailer overturns
... At least 58 people have been taken to hospital with injuries, said Luis Manuel Garcia, head of the Chiapas civil protection agency...
Luis Díaz: Colombians march for release of footballer's father
By Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC News
Residents of the Colombian town of Barrancas have held a candle-lit march to demand the release of The Father of Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz.
Luis Manuel Díaz was kidnapped At Gunpoint along with his wife on Saturday.
The Player 's mother was Left Behind in a car by The Kidnappers as police closed in, but The Gunmen dragged away his father.
Specialised police units are searching the area with sniffer dogs.
Shouting " freedom" and dressed in white T-shirts emblazoned with a photo of Luis Manuel Díaz, hundreds of people marched through Barrancas on Tuesday afternoon.
" I feel a pain deep in my soul, " resident Alis Amaya told local station Caracol news.
" It's an injustice that someone from Our Town , A Son of a local family should be suffering this pain and sadness, " she added.
Luis Manuel Díaz, also known as Mane, is a well-known and popular figure in Barrancas, where he trains young footballers.
CCTV footage broadcast by local media appears to show men on motorcycles following the couple's car just before they were seized at a petrol station in Barrancas on Saturday.
The Deputy head of the Colombian police, General Nicolás Zapata, told journalists that " when something like this happens, it's not spontaneous, there is prior planning".
The Colombian authorities have stepped up their search for Luis Manuel Díaz.
Barrancas is located in La Guajira province, in the extreme north of Colombia, an area where several guerrilla groups and armed gangs operate.
Police and soldiers are focusing their search on the Perijá mountains, a dense forest straddling the Colombia-Venezuela border.
Police Chief William Salamanca announced on Tuesday that two sniffer dogs with experience of searching for people in jungle areas had been flown to the area to Join In The Search .
Elite police units are using helicopters and planes equipped with heat-seeking cameras to fly over The Forest .
They have also dropped leaflets with a photo of Luis Manuel Díaz and the offer of a 200m-peso reward ($50,000; £40,000) for information on Luis Manuel Díaz's whereabouts.
On Monday, police said that they had identified A Number of individuals " linked to the kidnapping" but did not say who they were.
They have, however, said that he appears to have been seized by a criminal gang rather than a guerrilla group.
There are A Number of gangs which engage in smuggling, extortion and people-trafficking on both sides of the porous border.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
