Tears for Liam Payne as fans sob at vigil held after former One Direction star falls to his death from third floor of Buenos Aries hotel as tributes flood in By John James Published: 01:27 EDT, 17 October 2024 | Updated: 01:57 EDT, 17 October 2024 e-mail View comments Heartbroken fans have descended on the Buenos Aries hotel where former One Direction member Liam Payne died last night to lay candles and flowers in tribute to the singer. The popstar fell to his death from the third floor of a room in the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel shortly after 5pm (ART) yesterday . Local police said they had been called to the luxury hotel prior to Liam's fall after being 'informed of an aggressive man who may have been under the effects of drugs and alcohol .
' He had reportedly arrived in the Latin American country earlier this month to attend his ex bandmate Niall Horan's concert. Last night, thousands of fans gathered outside the hotel, while emergency services worked at the scene around a central red tent at the location the star fell. Some lit candles, some sang One Direction songs and others held each sobbing as they paused to remember Mr Payne who was one fifth of the most succesful boy band of the 2010s.
In order to control the crowd, Argentinian police were forced to form a line in front of the hotel to stop distraught local fans getting too close to the scene. Former One Direction member Liam Payne has died in Buenos Aires at the age of 31 Liam was a founding member of One Direction: th.