Ninety-three workers have died and at least 200 others have been hospitalised in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor, officials said Saturday, in the latest case of alcohol poisoning in the country.

The deaths in Assam state came less than two weeks after tainted liquor killed about 100 people in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

"The number of dead (in the district) has now increased to 58, and another 75 people are undergoing treatment" in local hospitals, Dhiren Hazarika, deputy commissioner of Golaghat district in Assam, told AFP.

Another official from the neighbouring district of Jorhat said that 35 people had died there after consuming a batch of "spurious liquor".

Hazarika said people started falling sick after consuming a batch of illegally produced liquor late Thursday.