More than an hour after sundown in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, a red van backed up to a side door of the four-star CasaSur Palermo Hotel to remove the body of former One Direction band member Liam Payne from the premises.

Cops in the South American country were caalled to a Buenos Aires hotel before the One Direction star's death after reports of an "aggressive man", they have said.

Liam Payne has died at age 31. The British singer-songwriter, formerly with the boy band One Direction, fell from the balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.