An OAP suffered a terrifying death when he was dragged by a train after the door closed on his hand in Brazil.

Victim Jose Alves Simao, 82, had been trying to board the train at Uruguaiana Station on the Rio de Janeiro Metro on 22nd October.

But the door had closed on his hand and he was dragged along the platform when the train started moving.

Horrified passengers pressed the emergency button to activate the train’s brakes, but by that point Jose had already fallen into the gap between the train and the platform.

He died from trauma to the chest and abdomen, as well as internal bleeding, reported local media.

Jose – a former soldier – had gone to the centre of Rio de Janeiro to take his mobile phone to a repair shop before meeting one of his sons to watch a football match.

His worried son had spent hours trying to call him before police told him to go to the police station.

Nilton Simao told local media: “There we learnt only that he had suffered an accident trying to take the subway, how it had happened, and that he had died.”

Jose leaves behind a wife and five children.

MetroRio said that it had contacted the family and offered to provide any necessary assistance.

An Accident Assessment Committee has been set up to investigate the case.