Tributes have been pouring in following the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne at the age of just 31. He died after falling from the third floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He rose to stardom aged 16 after forming boy band One Direction on The X Factor in 2010 alongside Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles, having returned to the ITV show two years after his first audition.
It is believed that he was in South America to attend a Niall Horan concert and had posted a picture of them "reunited" and and stayed on in the country. Here is everything we know: Investigation is underway According to Argentine police, the 31-year-old singer fell from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in the fashionable Palermo district, as confirmed by a statement from the local authorities on Wednesday. Medics later confirmed his death.
Alberto Crescenti, the head of the state emergency medical system, revealed on Argentina's Todo Noticias TV channel that the singer had fallen into a courtyard. He added that an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death was underway and an autopsy was being conducted. In a statement, Crescenti said: "At 17.
04 through the 911 integrated public safety system, we were alerted of a person who was in an internal courtyard of the management of a south house hotel. "At 17.11 a SAME team arrived and verified the death of this man and later we found out that he was a singer in a musical group.
Unfortunate.
