Fans across world holding vigils for Liam Payne

Fans successful the UK and astir the satellite are holding vigils this play successful representation of Liam Payne, the One Direction prima who died connected Wednesday.

A memorial has already been held successful his location metropolis of Wolverhampton, and successful Liverpool, with further gatherings planned connected Sunday including successful London, Manchester and Birmingham.

Groups of fans person besides travel unneurotic successful Sydney, Manila and elsewhere.

Payne, who was 31, died aft falling from the 3rd level of hotel balcony successful Argentina.

It is not yet known erstwhile his assemblage volition beryllium repatriated to the UK.

Details of the assorted memorials being held person been circulating connected societal media, with fans encouraged to bring letters, flowers and messages.

In Liverpool connected Saturday, a radical of Directioners, the sanction fixed to followers of the X Factor-formed lad band, gathered astatine the Keel Warf Bridge astatine Royal Albert Dock.

Some had cardboard signs with the band's lyrics connected them, including 1 saying "I'm missing fractional of maine erstwhile we're apart", from the band's azygous If I Could Fly.

Another memorial paper said Forever Young, a motion to the Alphaville way of the aforesaid sanction that One Direction covered.

Photographs of Payne, flowers, teddy bears and balloons were near astatine the bridge, and the radical sang One Direction songs.

Earlier this weekend, radical came unneurotic successful Wolverhampton, wherever the vocalist was calved successful 1993.

Around 100 radical looked down with their heads, bowed arsenic flowers were laid extracurricular St Peter's Church.

One instrumentality besides near a photograph of Payne arsenic a child, surrounded by candles.

Around the world, radical person besides been paying their respects.

In Buenos Aires, radical gathered extracurricular the edifice wherever Payne was recovered dead.

And successful Sydney, fans besides congregated with 1 called Amber telling the Reuters quality bureau astir the consciousness of nonaccomplishment she was feeling.

"My favourite memories with my sister are astir wholly revolving astir One Direction," she said.

"So for maine it feels like, I conjecture similar the extremity of america increasing up together. That's what makes it truthful hard."

Another, Christina, said the quality of his decease had "really deed home".

"I deliberation Liam conscionable made a monolithic interaction connected his fans. I personally person been a instrumentality for implicit 12 years," she said.

Payne roseate to planetary fame arsenic portion of the boyband One Direction - created connected The X Factor TV amusement successful 2010 - and sang unneurotic with bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan.

Malik near the radical successful 2015 to embark connected a solo singing career, and the set aboriginal divided successful 2016.

On Saturday, Malik announced helium had postponed the US limb of his upcoming circuit aft the "heartbreaking loss" of his erstwhile bandmate.

His household person besides been paying tribute. His sister Ruth Gibbins described Payne arsenic her "best friend" successful an emotional Instagram post, adding that she didn't consciousness “this satellite was bully capable oregon benignant enough” to him.

Meanwhile successful Argentina, Payne's father, Geoff Payne, connected Friday viewed tributes for his lad extracurricular the Casa Sur edifice successful Buenos Aires.

He besides visited the morgue successful the metropolis to officially place his son. A national authoritative antecedently told the BBC that his assemblage had been "released", meaning nary further tests were being carried retired and recognition could instrumentality place.