One Direction singer Liam Payne has died. He was aged 31.

TMZ reported that he fell from a third-story balcony at CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Costa Rica. The publication said that several witnesses saw Liam fall from the balcony just after 5pm on Wednesday evening, local time.

Police have confirmed the news in a statement.

“Liam James Payne, composer and guitarist, former member of the band One Direction, died today after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Palermo.”

City ambulance service provider spokesman Alberto Crescenti said that Liam suffered fatal injuries from the fall.

“The alarm was raised at 5.04pm local time saying a person was lying in an internal patio at Casa Sur,” he said.

“At 5.11pm an ambulance arrived and the man was certified dead.

“Afterwards, we found out he had been a famous singer. Unfortunately, the injuries he had suffered as a result of the fall proved to be fatal. There was no possibility of resuscitating him.”

Liam was 14 when he auditioned for X-Factor in 1008, he was eliminated on his first attempted. However, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a male group by judge Simon Cowell. That group consisted of Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik and went on to become the hugely successful band One Direction.

Liam shared a son named Bear with UK singer Cheryl Cole, who was born in 2017.

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