Rescue teams have pulled a 22-year-old man out of the rubble of a flattened building in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, eleven days after a 7.0 earthquake devastated the Caribbean republic. Wismond Jean-Pierre was rescued late on Saturday night after spending a week and a half under a collapsed hotel, just hours after the Haitian government declared search and rescue operations over. Jean-Pierre's survival was dubbed as "more than a miracle" by the French and Greek search and rescue teams who found him. Carmen Michalska, a rescuer with the Greek team, said: "He just said 'thank you' when we pulled him out." Speaking from his hospital bed, Jean-Pierre agreed he felt he had received "revelation I would survive".
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