BREAKING: The parents of Luis Diaz have been kidnapped in Colombia by assailants

The parents of Liverpool star Luis Diaz are thought to have been kidnapped in their homeland of Colombia.

As per local reports, the player's mother and father were stopped in their vehicles by the assailants in the town of Barrancas, in La Guajira, the town were Diaz grew up.

The suspected kidnappers then commandeered the van that Diaz's parents were travelling in, and fled the scene.

According to Semana, national Gaula police director Colonel Geovanni Cristancho is travelling to the region to spearhead the search and rescue.

Sources close to Luis Díaz confirm that his mother Cilenis Marulanda has been rescued by the police.

The operation now continues to free his father, kidnapped earlier today.