Ifzal Zaffar, 20, spoke fluent Urdu to the suicidal man, who was also Pakistani. The man had climbed up a crane at a construction site and police were called to the scene.
Zaffar climbed up the 65ft crane and exchanged words with the man, after which he agreed to come down and was taken to a hospital.
Zaffar, who is also fluent in Cantonese said to Apple Daily, “I used the techniques we learned at the academy … I think he felt safer knowing that I could talk to him in his own language.”