It was reported that two people have been detained in the investigation into the death of British singer, Liam Payne.

According to an Argentinian news outlet, La Nacion, the authorities have arrested a hotel staffer and an alleged local drug dealer, while also gaining access to an Argentinian businessman’s home as part of the investigation.

The two detained individuals are being accused of supplying the former One Direction member with the drugs found in his system during autopsy, while the businessman, who had been accompanying Liam, is accused of “the abandonment of a person followed by death”, which does not require he be detained by authorities.

The businessman, which was not named, was said to have falsely presented himself as the singer’s manager and did not contact authorities following Liam’s death.

It was back on 16 October that Liam was declared dead after falling from the third floor of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires.

He was revealed to have died of trauma, and internal and external bleeding.

Liam’s body has been released to his family to be flown to the UK.