A Singaporean official hands over a reward to Indian national Gunasekaran Manikandan.
A young Indian national is being hailed as a hero on social media after a video showed him helping an elderly man cross a street in Singapore.
Gunasekaran Manikandan, a resident of Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu, works as a land survey assistant in Singapore. He was near a large residential estate when he noticed the man, who appeared to be visually-impaired, waiting for a long time to cross the street. In the video, Mr Gunasekaran can be seen holding the man s hand, and then patiently guiding him across the street.