A hotel worker in Argentina says One Direction's Liam Payne was intoxicated and "breaking the whole room" before he fell to his death from a balcony on Oct. 16. (Buenos Aires City Police/Reuters) Argentinian police raided the Buenos Aires hotel where Liam Payne died last week amid an ongoing investigation into the singer's death, according to a government official who spoke to the Associated Press on Thursday.
The raid at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel was conducted on Wednesday and carried out by a police special investigations unit, which was dispatched on orders from the public prosecutors’ office, per the AP. Computer hard drives and security footage from the hotel's cameras were among the items taken by authorities, the government official, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, told the outlet. Argentinian police raided the hotel where Liam Payne died last week.
Police are pictured outside the hotel on Oct. 16, the night Payne died. (Getty) The former One Direction singer died at age 31 on Oct.
16 as a "result of the fall he suffered from the balcony of the third floor room of the hotel in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo where he was staying," according to the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 16, temporarily headed by Marcelo Roma. ONE DIRECTION SINGER LIAM PAYNE'S CAUSE OF DEATH REVEALED IN PRELIMINARY AUTOPSY REPORT Authorities confirmed Payne died after 5 p.
m. at the hotel. An employee called the emergency line to ask for help for.
