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Police 'prepare for release' of Liverpool star Luis Diaz's father more than a week after his kidnapping... with 'more than 300 men to be moved to strategic points to speed up his release'

Police are reportedly preparing for the release of Liverpool star Luis Diaz's father.

Diaz's father has been held for over a week by a guerrilla group, the national Liberation Army (ELN), in his homeland.

His mother Cilenis Marulanda was freed on the same night his parents were snatched off the streets though his father Luis Manuel Diaz has yet to be released.

However, Colombian publication Semana have now reported that police are preparing for his release.

It's said that the operation to withdraw the troops of the security forces from the border area with Venezuela has begun, in order to facilitate his release.