Liam Payne death: Three charged, one with 'abandonment of a person followed by death'

One Direction star Payne, 31, died after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.

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The singer died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.

Argentina's National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office said one person, who had been accompanying Payne, is accused of "the abandonment of a person followed by death".

A hotel employee and a third person have also been charged with supplying drugs. None of those arrested have been named.

Payne, 31, a father-of-one, became one of the most recognisable names in pop after appearing on The X Factor and rising to fame with the boyband One Direction in the 2010s.

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