Former One Direction musician Liam Payne died due to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding caused by a fall, an Argentine prosecutors’ office said on Thursday, revealing the first official results of the singer’s autopsy.
Payne, 31, who shot to global fame with boy band One Direction, was found dead after he plunged from a third-floor hotel room balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, triggering an outpouring of tributes from fans.
As fans and media swarmed the Casa Sur Hotel in the trendy Palermo neighborhood of Argentina’s capital, forensics investigators worked inside on Thursday collecting evidence.
The Buenos Aires police said they found Payne’s hotel room “in complete disarray” with packs of clonazepam, a central nervous system depressant, as well as energy supplements and other over-the-counter drugs strewn about and “various items broken,” according to The Associated Press. They added that a whiskey bottle, lighter and cellphone were retrieved from the internal courtyard where Payne’s body was found.
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