We're hearing reports that a former member of One Direction, Liam Payne, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires.

Now, this is according to the Reuters news agency, who are quoting local police.

AFP are quoting the local newspaper.

Liam Payne was 31.

We're going to talk now to our music reporter, Mark Savage.

Mark, what are you hearing?

Well, the same as what you've just said, local police reports in Buenos Aires are saying that Liam Payne fell from the third floor of a hotel in the capital and has been declared dead.

Obviously, we don't have that 100 percent confirmed as of now.

But very shocking news.

He was only 31 years old and achieved global fame with One Direction, selling more than 70 million records and then scoring number one hits on his own with songs like Strip That Down, which was written by Ed Sheeran and had recently released a new single called Teardrops.

This is very unexpected news.