Haiti man rescued 'after surviving 27 days in rubble'

A man rescued in Haiti may have spent the past 27 days trapped in rubble.

The news came 11 days after the last survivor was rescued, following the devastating 12 January earthquake, which killed as many as 200,000 people.

The family of Evan Muncie reportedly told doctors at a Port-au-Prince hospital yesterday that the 28-year-old had been trapped in the wreckage of a market since the quake.



His apparent recovery is all the more remarkable as the Haitian government declared an end to search and rescue operations on 23 January, 16 days before Muncie was reportedly found.

A BBC reporter in Port-au-Prince said he had spoken to the man's mother, who confirmed Muncie had been missing since the quake.

Dr Dushyantha Jayaweera, from the University of Miami field hospital, said that his survival in the rubble would be "unusual but not impossible". He was quite dehydrated and he was wasted, so there are certain things that suggest that it's true."