British singer Liam Payne, a former member of the bestselling pop group One Direction, died Wednesday aged 31 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentine police said.
“Liam James Payne, composer and guitarist, former member of the band One Direction, died today after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Palermo,” a police statement said.
The singer had suffered “very serious injuries incompatible with life as a result of his fall”, the head of the city’s SAME emergency medical service, Alberto Crescenti, told local television, adding “there was no possibility of resuscitation”.
Crescenti said emergency personnel rushed to the Casa Sur hotel in the capital’s Palermo neighbourhood after an emergency call was made at 5.04pm.
They arrived seven minutes later and “verified the death of this man, who we later learned was a singer.”
Boy band sensation One Direction emerged in 2010 when then-teenagers Payne, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik appeared on British television contest The X Factor.
