Assamese singer Zubeen Garg was cremated with state honours and a 21-gun salute at Kamarkuchi village, about 20 km from Guwahati, on Tuesday.

The 52-year-old singer died on September 19 in a scuba diving accident in Singapore.

Garg was in the country to participate in the North East Festival, a three-day event that was scheduled to begin on September 19.

A death certificate issued by Singaporean authorities on September 20 stated Garg’s cause of death as drowning.

On Sunday, his body was brought to Guwahati. Lakhs of fans thronged the streets of the city as the ambulance carrying his body travelled 30-km from the airport to his Kahilipara home on Sunday. The journey, which normally takes an hour, took nearly seven hours.

His body was kept at the Arjun Bhogeswar Baruah Sports Complex for more than 48 hours, where thousands of people paid their respects.

On Tuesday, thousands walked along the ambulance and lined the highway to see Garg for the last time. Thousands of people also gathered at the cremation site to mourn his death.

“The crowds that we’ve seen were completely earned by Zubeen himself,” actor and filmmaker Kenny Basumatary told Scroll. “All those lakhs of people came entirely on their own. This kind of love can’t be bought or faked.”

Born in 1972 in Meghalaya, Garg primarily worked in the Assamese, Bengali and Hindi-language film and music industries. The Assamese singer had sung in more than 40 languages and dialects.

In 2006, he sang Ya Ali from the Hindi film Gangster, which made him a nationwide success. Among other prominent Hindi songs by him are Subah Subah and Kya Raaz Hai.

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