A call from a hotel manager requesting urgent assistance ahead of the death of singer Liam Payne has been revealed.
The former One Direction star died after falling from the third floor into the courtyard of a hotel in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
Police in the city said officers were initially responding to reports “of an aggressive man who may have been under the effects of drugs and alcohol”.
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First responders outside the hotel where Liam Payne was found dead. Pic: Reuters
Hotel Casa Sur’s manager called the police and told the operator: “We have a guest drunk with drugs and alcohol. When he [them, gender not clear in conversation] is conscious he is breaking everything in the room.”
After checking the location of the hotel, the manager said: “We need [you] to send someone with urgency because I don’t know if the guest’s life is in danger because he is in a room with [a] balcony, and we are afraid he could do something that threatens [his] life.”
Asked how long the guest had been staying in the hotel, the manager said “three days” and said they did not have any further information because they could not get into the room.
The operator said they were notifying the Medical Emergency Attention Service (SAME) and the hotel manager reiterated their request: “We are asking [you] to send someone with urgency.”
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Payne was in Buenos Aires to attend the concert of his former One Direction bandmate Niall Horan earlier this month, Argentinian media reported.
Fans flocked to the hotel after news of his death broke, with some lighting candles and leaving flowers at the scene.