Haiti quake death toll reaches more than 111,000

Haiti.CNN: More than 111,000 people died in last week's massive earthquake in Haiti, the government announced, as search-and-rescue teams wind down their effort to find survivors.

The government's figure, released by the United Nations late Friday, is the first precise death toll for the 7.0-magnitude quake that struck on January 12. It said 111,481 people were confirmed dead.

It is the worst death toll from an earthquake since the 2004 Asian tsunami, and the second-highest death toll from an earthquake in more than three decades, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Some 609,000 people have also been left homeless in and around the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

Before the search-and-rescue effort ended Friday afternoon, OCHA said, rescuers had managed to pull 132 people alive from the rubble.