The leadership of Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) have announced the father of Liverpool attacker Luis Diaz will be released.

ELN made a statement on Friday morning confirming their intention to allow Luis Manuel Diaz to leave after he was kidnapped on the weekend near his family home.

It's been suggested Diaz's mother and father were kidnapped without the knowledge of ELN's command. Diaz's mother was released within hours of being taken, while Luis Manuel will now also be released after his identity was confirmed by his captors.

"We salute Colombia and the Caribbean," the group said in a statement released to El Colombiano. "We are in solidarity with the families who experience pain and tragedies due to unemployment, the criminal violence of paramilitarism and the abandonment of the State. The corruption of political clans is the main threat to the stability of the region.

"The Northern War Front has commands with economic missions and one of them carries out a private mission of freedom, which, after being reported and verified that it is the father of Lucho Diaz, is instructed to make his release because he is a family member of the great sportsman that we all love as Colombians.

"From that moment on, the release process begins and we want to avoid any incident. Firm in the search for the paths of peace, with the necessary transformations that the country needs."