Local police said the singer fell from the third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in the Palermo neighbourhood of Argentina’s capital

Liam Payne, a former member of the boy band One Direction, was found dead Wednesday in Buenos Aires after reportedly falling from the third floor of a hotel, according to ABC and The Associated Press. He was 31 years old.

Pop star Liam Payne of One Direction died after falling into an interior patio of a hotel in Buenos Aires, officials said.