BUENOS AIRES – A former member of the UK pop band One Direction, Liam Payne, died on Wednesday after he fell from the third floor of a hotel in Argentina’s Buenos Aires. He was 31.
Alberto Crescenti, the director of Buenos Aires’ city public emergency medical services system, said Payne was pronounced dead at the scene.
“At 5:04 p.m. (local time), we were informed about a man lying in the hotel’s inner courtyard. Ambulance arrived seven minutes later, but the man (was) pronounced dead at the scene. Later, we learned that he was a musician,” he said.
According to the report, Argentine police received a phone call about a man behaving aggressively in the same hotel before the tragedy.
It was not immediately clear whether the two incidents are connected.
One Direction, founded in 2010, rose to global fame with its debut album, Up All Night, which topped the charts worldwide. The band has been on hiatus since 2016. (TASS)
