Liam Payne, who rose to fame as a member of chart-topping British boy band One Direction, has died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires.
Payne died Wednesday evening, CNN reports, with several witnesses saying he fell from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
Payne embarked on a solo career when One Direction went on hiatus in 2016.
Payne is best known as a member of One Direction, a group assembled in 2010 on the reality competition The X Factor, along with fellow bandmates Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan.