Buenos Aires, Oct 16 (EFE).- Liam Payne, former member of the British band One Direction, died this Wednesday in Buenos Aires after falling from the third floor of a hotel. as confirmed by official sources, who informed EFE that the artist had “thrown himself from the balcony of his room.”
“The British musician 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 Costa Rica at 6000 in the Palermo neighborhood,” a spokesperson for the Ministry of Transportation informed EFE. Security of the City of Buenos Aires.
“In the afternoon, police personnel from Police Station 14B were sent to the Casa Sur hotel after a call to 911 reporting an aggressive man who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol,” added the spokesperson, who, however, did not confirmed that the man in question was Payne.
Upon the arrival of the police personnel to the hotel, the person in charge of the place “stated that he felt a loud noise in the interior rear lung (patio) of the hotel, and when the officers arrived, they confirmed the death of a man who had jumped from the balcony of the hotel. his room,” the ministry added in a statement.
Likewise, he explained that the Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 16 was assigned to the case and that the presence of the Criminalistics Unit and the transfer of the body to the morgue was ordered.
The death of the 31-year-old artist was also confirmed by the director of the medical emergency services of the city of Buenos Aires, Alberto Crescenti, who told local media that the fall caused him “very serious injuries that immediately caused his death.”
When the emergency services arrived, they found that “unfortunately he had injuries incompatible with life as a result of his fall” so “there was no possibility of resuscitation,” Crescenti explained in dialogue with the Argentine television channel Todo Noticias.
“We have to wait for the autopsy, but according to what the team saw, he had a skull base fracture,” he added.
According to the local press, Payne would have fallen in an internal courtyard of the hotel where a cafeteria operates, although at that time it was empty, so no one else was injured.
The singer had recently uploaded videos of himself on his Snapchat social network profile during a concert in Buenos Aires, on October 2, with his friend and former One Direction partner, Niall Horan.
“Very proud,” Payne wrote on his profile, accompanied by images of Horan’s concert, who was presenting his new album in Argentina.
The artist who died this Monday was also shown dancing with his girlfriend and rehearsing the choreography of the song ‘La Macarena’ with a group of fans who identified him in one of the stands during Horan’s concert.
«I can’t wait to sing one of your songs with you. “I feel great,” Payne added in another message, already back from his friend’s concert.
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