New Delhi, Aug 23 - Six more swine flu deaths were reported in India, taking the number of deaths from influenza A (H1N1) to 60, the health ministry said here Sunday.

While five deaths were reported from Maharashtra, one death was reported from Gujarat. With these deaths, Maharashtra tops with 36 casualties.

'The cumulative laboratory confirmed deaths reported by the states as on Aug 23, 2009, are 60 - Maharashtra (36), Karnataka (12), Gujarat (6), Tamil Nadu (3), Delhi (2) and Kerala (1),' the health ministry said.

Though it did not gave details of the people who died in Maharashtra, in Gujarat a 48-year-old man died of the virus in Vadodara Sunday, becoming the sixth victim of swine flu in the state, officials said.

Hasmukh Hingu, a resident of Bharuch town in southern Gujarat, was admitted to the government-run SSG Hospital here Thursday with a 'respiratory distress syndrome' and had been put on the ventilator, a senior resident of the hospital said. He died Sunday morning.

Meanwhile, the country also reported 103 swine flu positive cases, pushing the total number of infected people to 2,772.