Services remember Arandora Star victims
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Hundreds of people, many Italian internees, died on the Arandora Star
Services are being held in Glasgow and Edinburgh to mark the 70th anniversary of a wartime tragedy which claimed hundreds of lives.
More than 400 Scottish Italians died when the Arandora Star was sunk off the coast of Ireland on 2 July 1940.
The Glasgow service will include the blessing of the site of a memorial garden being built in Clyde Street.
A mass is also planned at St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh to commemorate the victims.
The Glasgow event will be attended by Archbishop Mario Conti and Rando Bertoia, the only living survivor of the tragedy.
The Arandora Star was a converted liner being used to transport internees and prisoners of war to Canada when it was sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat.
A memorial garden is being created in their honour next to St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow.
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