The 31-year-old British musician was found dead on Wednesday after falling from the third floor of a hotel in the Palermo district of the Argentine capital.
British musician Liam Payne, former member of the 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 One Direction, died today after falling from the third floor of a Palermo hotel”a neighborhood in the Argentine capital, police said in a statement.
The musician presented “Very serious injuries following his fall, we pronounced him dead, there was no possibility of resuscitation”emergency chief Alberto Crescenti said 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 “I found this man dead and later we found out he was a singer in a band”he continued.
An open investigation
An investigation into the causes of death has been opened.
Liam Payne was, alongside 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. According to Billboard magazine, Liam Payne attended a concert by his former partner Niall Horan in Buenos Aires on October 2.
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