Floods in India Kill at Least 23

Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and roads, killing at least 23 people in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said Monday. More than a dozen people died in the state’s Rudraprayag district alone, while 50 people were missing, said Amit Negi, an official in Uttarakhand. At least three other people were washed away when a three-story apartment building toppled into a river and was carried away by the swift-moving current, said Amit Chandola, a government spokesman.

A version of this brief appeared in print on June 18, 2013, on page A8 of the New York edition with the headline: India: Floods Kill at Least 23.