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Liam Payne, an English singer who rose to fame as a member of boyband One Direction, died Wednesday after falling from the balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Buenos Aires police issued a statement saying Payne fell from a third floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in the Argentinian capital, sustaining “extremely serious injuries,” and was declared dead on the spot by medics.
A local official cited by the Associated Press earlier said that Payne “had jumped from the balcony of his room.”
Police were reportedly rushed to the scene just after 5 p.m. local time after the hotel’s manager placed an emergency 911 call complaining about a guest “overwhelmed with drugs and alcohol…destroying the entire room,” the AP report added.