Liam Payne's cause of death has now been revealed after he sadly died at the age of 31 .
The former One Direction star died on the spot due to multiple injuries including a skull fracture after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Alberto Crescenti, the Buenos Aires emergency services chief, said medical teams weren't able to save Liam when they arrived on the scene.
In a statement , Crescenti said: "Our role was to head there quickly, give medical attention, and try to resuscitate him, but his injuries were incompatible with life. Based on what the team saw, there was apparently a cranial fracture and extremely serious injuries that led to his immediate death."
Liam's autopsy was performed by the Forensic Medical Corps at the Judicial Morgue on Viamonte Street and the preliminary result is consistent with a ten-meter fall he suffered from the balcony of his hotel room.
Liam sadly died on Wednesday night after falling from the third floor of a hotel. Local police said he fell from the third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel.
It's believed that Liam suffered "very serious injuries incompatible with life." In a statement, the local ambulance manager told TN: "At 17.04 through the 911 integrated public safety system, we were alerted of a person who was in an internal courtyard of the management of a south house hotel.
"There is an internal courtyard where the victim fell, with tables and chairs: the hotel’s confectionery shop operates there. The space has a retractable roof that was open at the time. Fortunately, there were no other people there."
Authorities are now investigating the circumstances surrounding Liam's death, according to Crescenti. Liam's body has been sent for an autopsy.
It's hoped the autopsy will help investigators determine what led to his death and if there were any contributing factors. It's currently unclear if authorities suspect foul play in his death.
Crescenti said in a statement: "The alarm was raised at 5.04pm local time saying a person was lying in an internal patio at Casa Sur. 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 is survived by his son Bear, who he welcomed with Girls Aloud star ex Cheryl, his mom Karen Payne and his dad Geoff Payne.
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