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A special memorial service has been held at St Andrew’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in honour of the victims of Monday’s Glasgow bin lorry crash tragedy.
The horrific incident claimed six people’s lives leaving several injured when a bin lorry lost control on Queen Street and crashed in George Square in Glasgow.
Three of the victims were from one family. They were Erin McQuade, 18, and her grandparents Jack and Lorraine Sweeney, all from Dumbarton.
The mother of teenage girl, Jacqueline McQuade was also present at the shopping centre, witnessed her daughter Erin and two parents being hit by an out of control refuse lorry in Glasgow city centre.
It is reported that Ms McQuade went to withdraw money from a cash machine when her daughter and parents were killed in the tragic incident.
The others include Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, Stephenie Tait, 29, from Glasgow, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, from Glasgow.
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, who has lead the church memorial service, has said the woman and her family wept from the “abyss of their loss” after Ms McQuade lost her three family members.
While speaking in front of congregation, he has told: “On the evening of the tragedy, I was privileged to be permitted to spend some time with one of the families who had been cruelly devastated by the incident.
“I was able to witness and share the grief and sadness of a mother and of a father for their daughter, and of two daughters for their mother and father. The distressed woman to whom I was speaking had seen her daughter and her own parents killed almost right in front of her. Can you imagine the horror?
“I tried to console them and comfort them. We spoke and we cried and we were silent before the abyss of their loss and the random meaninglessness of what had happened. They openly spoke of their faith, but their faith was sorely tried, and I commended them silently to God that the Lord would find the way to bring them comfort.”
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