Horror moment OAP ex-soldier, 82, is dragged to his death after getting hand trapped in the tube door in Rio

THIS is the horror moment a pensioner is dragged to his death after getting his hand stuck in a tube door in Brazil. Gut-wrenching CCTV footage shows retired soldier José Alves Simao, 82, getting his hand trapped at the door as he tried to board. The pensioner got his hand stuck in the tube’s door The ex-soldier got trapped when he tried to board the train Jose Alves Simao, 82, died after being dragged along the platformNewsflash The clip shows the station’s signals turning green and the train starting to move as the man is being dragged along the platform. Mr Simao eventually lost his balance and suffered serious injuries that later caused his death. The horrific accident happened last October at the Uruguaiana station in Rio de Janeiro. The former military man was on his way to meet his son to watch his team’s Vasco football match, G1 reports. The horrific accident happened at the Uruguaiana station in Rio His worried son Nilton was desperately trying to call his father until a police officer asked him to go to the police station. “There (at the police station) we only found out that he had suffered an accident trying to take the subway, as it had been and that he had died.” Mr Simao suffered injuries to the chest and abdomen, as well as internal bleeding. The man’s family alleges that the station’s safety system failed – with their lawyers suggesting the footage “confirms the serious failure in the safety device of the doors that allow the train to start with a human being trapped.” Metro Rio said in a statement to the outlet that it has been collaborating with the investigations of the Civil Police and offered to provide any necessary assistance to the family following the accident. Shocking footage released back in September showed a boy slipping onto tracks and being dragged away under a train. And a man died after he was dragged by a train along a New York City subway platform.