India, Sept. 22 -- Thousands of people gathered in Guwahati on Sunday to bid farewell to Assam's cultural icon Zubeen Garg, who died in Singapore on September 19.

Huge crowds of grief-stricken fans queued through the night, waiting for hours to catch a final glimpse of the singer, whose mortal remains were kept in a glass casket draped with a traditional Assamese 'gamosa'.

The impact of the moment was so profound that the Limca Book of Records officially recognized it as one of the largest public funerals in history, read a report by Moneycontrol.

The gathering to pay last respects to Zubeen Garg's was the fourth-largest public gathering worldwide, standing alongside monumental farewells such as those of Michael Jackson, Pope Francis, ...