Argentine prosecutors charge three over death of Liam Payne

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of former One Direction member Liam Payne, who died last month after falling from his hotel room balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentine prosecutors said Thursday.

Prosecutor Andrés Madrea charged the three suspects, whose identities were not revealed, with the crimes of "abandonment of a person followed by death" and "supplying and facilitating the use of narcotics", the prosecutor's office said. Madrea also requested their arrest to judge Laura Bruniard, who ruled that the three cannot leave the country.

Payne fell from his room's balcony on the third floor of his hotel in the upscale neighbourhood of Palermo in the Argentine capital. His autopsy said he died from multiple injuries and external bleeding.