Former member of the English-Irish pop boy band, One Direction, Liam Payne, has been reported dead.
Payne, 31, passed away outside a hotel in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, according to the local newspaper La Nacion on Wednesday, CNN reports.
He was found dead after falling from the third floor of a hotel on Costa Rica Street in the Palermo neighbourhood, according to a police statement provided to CNN.
“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 statement read.
Authorities are currently investigating whether the incident at the Casa Sur hotel was an accident or a possible suicide, according to the Buenos Aires Times.
Payne had been staying in room 10 on the third floor, and his body was discovered in the hotel’s internal courtyard. The fall from the balcony was approximately 13 to 14 metres, the…