Argentine court drops charges against three people over death of Liam Payne

A picture of former One Direction singer Liam Payne is surrounded with flowers and candles as part of a makeshift memorial outside the hotel where he fell from a balcony to his death, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

A court in Argentina has dropped charges of criminal negligence against three of the five people charged in connection with the death of Liam Payne, according to a ruling obtained by The Associated Press.

The former One Direction singer fell from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires last October.