Haiti, January 27: A man has been pulled out alive from under the rubble in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince 14 days after a killer quake destroyed the city.
The 31-year-old Ricot Duprevil miraculously survived the two weeks on just water.
He was only able to let out a weak cry before being rescued by American troops from the ruins of a building in the center of the city.
He was evacuated to a nearby treatment facility with a “broken leg and severe dehydration,” the US military said in a statement on Tuesday.
Although he had been trapped for 12 days by an aftershock rather than the initial quake itself, the man is considered to be the longest survivor in the Haitian quake so far.
Haiti has been hit by at least 50 tremors since the original quake.
An estimated 133 people have been pulled out alive by rescue teams in Port-au-Prince since the 7.0 magnitude quake hit the Caribbean nation, killing as many as 200,000 people.
However, many more survivors have been rescued by ordinary Haitians, often with their bare hands.
The latest rescue came as hope had evaporated in finding more survivors, following a Saturday announcement by the Haitian government calling off the search and rescue efforts.
——Agencies