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The 31-year-old British musician was a vocalist for the U.K. pop band, along with Niall Horan, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. The band is on hiatus.

Liam Payne, a member of the British pop band One Direction, died Wednesday at age 31 after he fell from the third floor of a hotel in Argentina, local authorities said.

Sistema de Atencion Medica de Emergencia, the emergency health service, said in a statement to Telemundo, NBC News’ Spanish-language sister network, that Payne fell from the balcony in Palermo.

Police “were directed to the hotel by a 911 call reporting an aggressive man,” said the emergency services agency. It did not say whether drugs or alcohol were involved, just that the 911 call reported that could be the case.

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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 3 days ago

As someone with acrophobia, this justifies my fear of balconies and railings over 1 story tall. I don't understand humans' architectural obsession with giant voids and heights. I'm the kinda person who's asshole puckers up looking at a two story mall ceiling.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Movies make it look like you can shrug off a fall from a 1 story building and just keep running. But wow, is that not true. There are instances of people surviving a lot more, but 1-2 stories is enough to kill much of the time.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Actually, most falling deaths/injuries occur from, like, 6’ or lower. I’m sure a lot of that has to do with older people.

[-] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Rule of thumb is any fall from your height or higher in which you hit your head (non withstanding other injuries) is a medical emergency.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I’m sure most falls are not off a balcony, etc but yeah probably people tripping, especially old people :(

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