An elderly man tragically died after a train door closed on his hand and he was dragged along the platform at a station in Brazil.
Jose Alves Simao, 82, had been trying to board the train at Uruguaiana Station on the Rio de Janeiro metro, on 22nd October, when the accident happened.
The door closed on his hand and he became trapped as the train began to move down the track.
Horrified passengers pressed the emergency buttons to activate the train's brakes - but by that point Mr Simao 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.
Mr Simao, a former soldier, had been in 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."
Mr Simao leaves behind a wife and five children.
Daughter Simone Brito Simao has said that she doesn’t want her father’s death to be treated as a “number” and that the Brazilian authorities take action to help avoid similar accidents happening in the future.
"My father considered the metro to be one of the safest means of transport there was. Last Saturday, my father got stuck in the metro door. The metro didn't open the door, and he was dragged along Uruguaiana Station where he died," she said on Instagram.
"I want to make an appeal so that together we can push the authorities and competent bodies to take action so that my father's death is not a number, and so that this does not happen again for any other family.
"Security on transport is not a favour. Safety for metro users is not a favour. It is an obligation!"
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.
