Three people have been charged in connection with the death of former One Direction member Liam Payne, who died in Argentina on October 16.

On Wednesday, Argentina's National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office announced in a press release that Payne did not die by suicide.

Argentine prosecutors say that three people have been charged in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Direction, who died after falling from the balcony of his

Liam Payne’s fatal fall from a third floor balcony was not ruled a suicide. Law enforcement sources confirmed Liam’s death was caused by the side effects of the drugs he took, TMZ reported on Friday.

Liam Payne did not commit suicide according to the prosecutor on the case. The former One Direction star died on Oct. 16 after falling from the third floor of his hotel room in Argentina. Prosecutors told TMZ that suicide has officially been ruled out as the cause of the 31-year-old’s plummet from his suite at the Casa Sur Palermo Hotel,

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Direction who died after falling from the balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires last month,

Payne, 31, died after he fell from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.

Related: Liam Payne's "proud" sister remembers late star in heartbreaking tribute One of the individuals is reportedly someone who was close to Payne, while the other two are a hotel employee and someone accused of providing drugs to the singer.