Former One Direction member Liam Payne found dead in Buenos Aires
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Police say 31-year-old singer, who gained fame in pop supergroup, fell to his death from a hotel in Argentina’s capital.
Liam Payne, a former member of the globally popular One Direction pop group, has died at age 31.
Police in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires said Payne fell from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in the trendy Palermo neighbourhood on Wednesday. He sustained “extremely serious injuries” and was pronounced dead at the scene.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Pablo Policicchio, the spokesperson for the Security Ministry of the Buenos Aires municipality, said police had been called to the hotel in response to a report of an “aggressive man who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol”.
Policicchio told the news agency that Payne “had thrown himself from the balcony of his room”. Further details were not immediately clear, and authorities are still investigating the death.
Local media in Argentina reported that Payne had been in Buenos Aires to attend the concert of his former One Direction bandmate Niall Horan.
