Man rescued in Haiti quake rubble

**A man has been pulled alive from the rubble in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince - two weeks after the earthquake that destroyed the city.**US troops rescued the man from the ruins of a building in the centre of the city, and he was taken to hospital.

It is not yet clear if he became trapped in the initial quake, or during one of the many aftershocks since then.

The rescue comes 14 days after the 7.0-magnitude quake, which killed as many as 200,000 people.

A US Army specialist at the scene of the rescue told the AFP news agency it was possible the man had been trapped since the 12 January tremor.

“We don’t know if he was there from the beginning or in one of the aftershocks he may have gone under,” said the specialist, Andrew Pourak.

HAITI’S REMARKABLE SURVIVORS

  • Emmannuel Buso, 21 - rescued after 10 days
  • Marie Carida, 84 - saved after 10 days
  • Mendji Bahina Sanon, 11 - trapped for eight days
  • Lozama Hotteline, 25 - pulled out after seven days
  • Elisabeth Joassaint, 15 days - buried for seven days, half her life
  • Ena Zizi, 69 - rescued after seven days

Haiti quake: Survivors’ stories

Haiti has been rattled by at least 50 tremors since the original quake.

According to Reuters news agency, the survivor was a 35-year-old man who was pulled from the ruins covered in dust and wearing only underpants.

He was taken for medical treatment but is not thought to be seriously injured.

On Saturday, Haiti’s government declared the search and rescue phase for survivors over.

It is estimated more than 130 people have been pulled alive from the rubble in the Haitian capital since the quake.

Earlier, Haitian President Rene Preval made an urgent appeal for more tents to house up to a million people left homeless by the tremor.

Mr Preval said 200,000 tents were needed before the expected start of the rainy season in May.

His call came as donor nations and organisations met in Montreal, Canada, to assess the aid effort.

Mr Preval, who lost his house in the quake, is planning to move into a tent on the lawn of the destroyed National Palace in the centre of the capital.

The Haitian government wants to relocate some 400,000 people, currently in makeshift camps across the capital, to temporary tent villages outside the city.

But aid workers warned that if the camps were too big they could pose security problems, including robberies, rapes and gang activities.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she “resented” criticism of American assistance to Haiti.

She pinpointed some media outlets which had “either misunderstood or deliberately misconstrued what was a civilian and military response”.