Brasília- The government will release R$32 million to the Civil Defense Secretariat at the Ministry of National Integration which will distribute the funds to some 118 municipalities that have been devastated by recent rains. A total of 51 people have died in the flooding and some 4,000 left homeless. It is estimated that 3,500 kilometers of highways were destroyed, as well. The states that have been hardest hit by the rains are Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Sergipe. (AB)