British musician Liam Payne, former member of the group One Direction, died this Wednesday the 16th, aged 31, “after falling from the third floor of a hotel” in Buenos Aires, police reported.
“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,” the police wrote in a statement.
The musician had “very serious injuries, incompatible with life, as a result of his fall, that is, we had to confirm his death, there was no possibility of resuscitation”, the head of the Emergency Medical Care System (Same ), Alberto Crescenti.
He reported that the emergency service responded to the Casa Sur hotel, in the Palermo neighborhood, after a call to the public security telephone number 911 at 5:04 pm local time (same time in Brasília).
Seven minutes later, a team arrived and “verified the man’s death and we later learned that he was a singer in a musical group,” he added.
On October 2, Payne attended a performance by his former bandmate Niall Horan in Buenos Aires, according to information from Billboard magazine.
