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Tributes paid to Liam Payne, former One Direction singer

Tributes have been paid to former One Direction singer Liam Payne who died at a hotel in the Argentiniane capital Buenos Aires overnight.

Local police said the 31-year-old British musician fell from the third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in the Palermo neighbourhood of Argentina’s capital before medics confirmed his death, in a statement to media.

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