Former One Direction star Liam Payne dies in Argentina, police say

Liam Payne, the erstwhile subordinate of One Direction, has died aged 31 successful Argentina, constabulary say.

Police said helium fell from the 3rd level of a edifice successful Buenos Aires, according to AFP quality bureau and section media.

Earlier this month, helium had attended the Argentina performance of his erstwhile One Direction bandmate Niall Horan.

Payne was portion of the much-loved boyband, on with Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik.

The popular enactment archetypal appeared connected ITV endowment amusement The X Factor successful 2010 and went connected to go 1 of the biggest-selling lad bands, breaking streaming records successful August 2015.

One Direction announced they were going connected hiatus successful 2015, with the members of the radical going to enactment connected idiosyncratic projects aft releasing their 5th workplace album.

Payne went connected to merchandise his debut album, LP1, successful December 2019.

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