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Liam Payne, former One Direction singer, dies aged 31

British musician found dead outside a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to local police

“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,” Buenos Aires police said in a statement. Alberto Crescenti, head of the state emergency medical system, told Argentina’s Todo Noticias TV channel that Payne had fallen into an internal courtyard at the hotel. Born in Wolverhampton, England in 1993, Payne was just 16 years old when he became part of One Direction, a boyband formed by music executive Simon Cowell on British reality show The X Factor in 2010.

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