More than an hour after sundown in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, a red van backed up to a side door of the four-star CasaSur Palermo Hotel to remove the body of former One Direction band member Liam Payne from the premises.

Cops in the South American country were caalled to a Buenos Aires hotel before the One Direction star's death after reports of an "aggressive man", they have said.

Officials in Buenos Aires say the performer fell into a courtyard of a hotel in the trendy Palermo neighborhood of Argentina’s capital.