British tourist Alastar Neil Macdonald body consigned to flames in Jorhat

A Correspondent

JORHAT: British tourist Alastar Neil Macdonald (81), who was found dead on January 31, on the Assam Tourism water vessel Charaideo II that was traveling from Upper Assam to Guwahati, was consigned to flames at the Tarajan crematorium ground by Jenny Ellroy Noronha, the funeral director of the Indian Funeral Service, New Delhi who was authorized by the British High Commission.

As the tourist had no close family member to carry his body to London, so the funeral service provider, after lighting the pyre, collected the ash to send it to London to his family members.

Macdonald (81) had traveled to India for the fifth time on January 31. Earlier, Bipul Das, Subdivisional Officer (Civil), officers from the administration and police paid floral tribute to the octogenarian British tourist, while Jorhat district administration carried the body from Jorhat Medical College and Hospital in a beautifully decorated vehicle till the funeral ground.

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