This is the shocking moment a Spanish police officer fell to his death after he was apparently pushed into the path of an oncoming train.

The officer, named as 28-year-old Francisco Javier Ortega, was talking to a group on the platform at Madrid's Embajadores station, when it is alleged he asked to see identification papers of one of the men.

Bystanders waiting for the train were filming on their mobile phones as a minor scuffle broke out on the platform yesterday.

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The police officer can be seen talking to the group, left, when he allegedly asks one man to produce identification papers, and a small scuffle breaks out, right

Then one of the men appears to grab the officer and drags him on to the tracks, just before a train pulls into the station in the heart of the Spanish capital.

Horrified onlookers in the station can then be heard screaming as the pair are both hit by the train.

Mr Ortega was then rushed to a nearby hospital but later died from his injuries.

The man who is alleged to have pushed him on to the tracks has been named by Spanish newspaper El Pais as 28-year-old Yode Ali Raba from the Ivory Coast.

The man can then be seen pulling the officer towards the platform edge, left, before both men end up falling on to the tracks into the path of an oncoming train, right

The paper reports that he illegally entered Spain in 2011 and after surviving the impact of being struck by the train, he is in hospital, where he is being treated for a severe head injury.

Today, the Director General of Police in Spain, Ignacio Cosidó described Mr Ortega's death as 'murder'.

He told El Pais: 'It is clear that there is intent on taking the agent to the railway tracks and throwing him under when a train was approaching.'

The train then strikes the pair, as horrified onlookers, some who had filmed the incident on their mobile phones, began screaming

His comments came after a ceremony took place to posthomously award Mr Ortega the gold medal of police merit.

Officers had lined the streets forming a guard of honour as the police officers coffin was brought to an auditorium from a chapel for the medal ceremony to take place.