British musician Liam Payne, former member of the Anglo-Irish boy band One Direction, died on Wednesday October 16 at the age of 31 in Argentina, Buenos Aires police announced. “Liam James Payne, songwriter and guitarist, former member of the band One Direction, died today after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Palermo”a district of the Argentine capital, police reported in a press release.
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 had been called to the Casa Sur hotel, in the Palermo district, after receiving a call at 5:04 p.m. local time (10:04 p.m. in France). Arriving seven minutes later, a team “found this man dead and later we found out he was a singer in a band”he continued.
An investigation into the causes of death has been opened. Along with Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles, Liam Payne was 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. According to the magazine BillboardLiam Payne attended a concert by his former partner Niall Horan in Buenos Aires on October 2.
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