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According to local news reports a successful Hong Kong architect fell 19 floors trying to prevent childhood friend to commit suicide.

Leung Kam-kong was 28 years old. He was honored at an Design awards ceremony just a few hours before the tragedy, the South China Morning Post reported.

News reports say that according to the police sources Leung went to the help his childhood friend Chan Kei-tai, a 27-year-old, who was depressed and suicidal because he lost his job and had split with his girlfriend.

Leung went to a block of flats where Chan had lived as a child. He fell to his death as he tried to stop his friend from committing suicide by leaping from a 19th-floor.

“One of the two men tried to prevent the other from falling,” one police officer was quoted as saying. “In doing so, he fell.”

Their bodies were found on Hong Kong’s Kwun Lung Lau estate in the city’s Western district.

Leung graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He has returned to Hong Kong to work with the Chai Wan-based company called Urban age International. Hours before they fell to their deaths, Leung, was described by his boss as highly talented.

He was one of six children.

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