Liam Payne died on Oct. 16 after falling from the balcony of his hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His cause of death has reportedly been confirmed as polytrauma.

Singer Liam Payne's medical cause of death has been confirmed in a UK inquest opening as "polytrauma". The One Direction star died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.

The medical cause of singer and former One Direction member Liam Payne’s death has been confirmed as ‘polytrauma’ during a UK inquest. The term refers to multiple traumatic injuries which have been sustained to a person’s body and organ systems due to severe impact situations,

Five people have been charged in connection with the death of former One Direction star Liam Payne in Argentina, the country’s prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Monday.

The results matched those previously released by Argentinian authorities in their investigation into the singer's Oct. 16 death following a fall from a hotel balcony.

The death of Liam Payne, former member of One Direction, has been confirmed through a U.K. inquest as due to polytrauma. The former member of the now-defunct British boy band passed away on October 16 after falling off a third-story hotel balcony in Argentina.

Geoff Payne learnt about his son Liam Payne's drink and drug-fuelled death in an anguished phone call from one of the men facing prosecution over Liam’s third-floor hotel balcony plunge, it emerged today.