One Direction fans are in mourning. Liam Payne, former singer of this British pop group, very popular in the early 2010s, died this Wednesday in Argentina, in the capital Buenos Aires, several media outlets including La Nacion and the local police reported.
According to the first elements collected, the body of the 31-year-old musician was found in the interior courtyard of a hotel, located in the Palermo district, in the heart of the Argentine capital. He apparently fell to his death from the third floor of the building.
The musician presented “very serious injuries following his fall, we pronounced him dead, there was no possibility of resuscitation,” declared the head of emergencies, Alberto Crescenti, on local television.
He said emergency services were called to the Casa Sur hotel in the Palermo district after receiving a call at 5:04 p.m. local time (8:04 p.m. GMT). Arriving seven minutes later, a team “noted the death of this man”, he continued.
An investigation into the causes of death has been opened. According to Billboard magazine, Liam Payne attended a concert by his former partner Niall Horan in Buenos Aires on October 2.
Liam Payne was, along with Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles, one of the members of the boy band formed in 2010 and which enjoyed dazzling success. The announcement in 2016 of a break in the group’s career, never formalized as a separation, upset millions of fans.
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