Man pulled alive from rubble 27 days after Haiti earthquake

A man has been pulled alive from a collapsed building in Haiti's capital 27 days after the earthquake struck and 18 days after the government gave up looking for survivors.

The 28-year-old, identified locally as Evan Muncie, was found in the wreckage of a market where he sold rice. It appears he had been trapped the entire time.

It is not clear how he survived, but he reportedly told doctors that someone "in a white coat" kept bringing him water throughout his ordeal. He said he could hear excavating going on around him and feared being buried alive,

He was taken to a US field hospital in Port au Prince emaciated and hallucinating. Dr Mike Connelly said he was severely dehydrated, adding: "He hadn't had anything in quite some time. He had open wounds that were festering on both feet."

Dr Dushyantha Jayaweera, of the University of Miami field hospital, said it was "unusual but not impossible" that he had been buried alive for nearly a month.

Mr Muncie's mother said: "I thought he was dead, but God kept him from dying."