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| 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. | 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 the man fell under the rubble during the initial quake, or during an aftershock. | |
| The rescue comes 14 days after the 7.0-magnitude quake, which killed as many as 200,000 people. | 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. | "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. |
| The survivor was a 35-year-old man who was pulled from the ruins covered in dust and wearing only underpants, reported Reuters news agency. He 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. |