Liam Payne’s former bandmates in One Direction have shared a statement on the 31-year-old signer’s death, calling him a brother who they “loved dearly.”

"Will forever love & miss you," Mawla wrote in an Instagram Stories post following Payne's death at age 31 on Wednesday, Oct. 16

Officials have revealed singer and former One Direction member Liam Payne’s cause of death following an autopsy. Argentina's National Prosecutor's Office stated that he died from "polytrauma" and "internal and external hemorrhage" after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires.