Former One Direction member Liam Payne dead at 31 after falling from balcony, suffering ‘severe injuries’

Former One Direction member Liam Payne has died. He was 31.

On Wednesday, the UK-born singer-songwriter fell from the third floor of his hotel room at CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local officials, per the Associated Press.

Buenos Aires police said in a statement that Payne’s fall resulted in “extremely serious injuries,” with medics confirming his death on the spot.

Pablo Policicchio, the spokesperson for the Security Ministry of Buenos Aires municipality, told the outlet that the musician “had thrown himself from the balcony of his room.”

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Policicchio said cops were dispatched to the hotel in response to an emergency call about an “aggressive man who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.”

Responding officers heard a thud and found Payne’s body in the hotel courtyard, according to Policicchio.

Alberto Crescenti, head of the state emergency medical system, explained on Argentina’s Todo Noticias TV channel that Payne fell 13 or 14 meters and “suffered severe injuries that provoked his immediate death.”

“We arrived in time to try and revive him, but there was nothing we could do,” Crescenti said, adding that authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding Payne’s death and that an autopsy is being performed.

It’s unclear whether the fall was intentional or accidental, and reps for Payne — who said he was having a “lovely day” in a Snapchat video posted hours before his death — did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

TMZ, who was first to report the news, obtained a photo showing Payne’s body lying on the hotel’s wooden deck, surrounded by tables and chairs.

The outlet did not publish the image in its entirety, but the tattoos on the man’s arm matched Payne’s.

Witnesses told TMZ the fall happened shortly after 5 p.m. local time and that the pop star had been acting erratically in the hotel lobby earlier.