Bogota, May 21 (EFE).- Two Spanish tourists were kidnapped last week in northeastern Colombia, police said Tuesday.
Angel Sanchez Fernandez, 49, and Maria Concepcion Marlaska Sedano, 43, were abducted on Friday, police spokesmen told Efe.
Marlaska Sedano is related to Spanish National Court Judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
The two tourists are from Aviles, a city in the northern Spanish region of Asturias, and were in Colombia on vacation, police said.
Sanchez Fernandez and Marlaska Sedano were kidnapped in La Guajira, a Colombian province on the border with Venezuela.
The kidnappers contacted the victims' families over the weekend and demanded the payment of ransom, police said.
The kidnappers claimed to belong to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Andean country's oldest and largest rebel group, but investigators have not confirmed this, officials said.
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo confirmed the tourists' kidnapping and said the Foreign Ministry was "in contact" with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the victims' families.
The two Spanish citizens may have been moved into Venezuela, police told Efe.
The Colombian National Police is coordinating its efforts with its Spanish counterpart and has deployed officers from a special anti-kidnapping unit to La Guajira.
News of the kidnapping broke ahead of Thursday's Alliance of the Pacific Summit in the southwestern Colombian city of Cali.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is scheduled to attend the summit on Thursday.
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