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, the Buenos Aires police announced. “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 district of the Argentine capital, the police reported in a press release.
The musician presented “Very serious injuries after his fall, we declared 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. (10:04 p.m. in France). Arriving seven minutes later, a team “We found this man dead and then we discovered that he was a singer in a band”continuous.
An investigation has been opened into the causes of death. 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 achieved dazzling success. The announcement in 2016 of a pause 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.
