Haitian man pulled out alive 11 days after quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – International rescuers yesterday pulled a 24-year-old Haitian man alive from the  rubble of a collapsed hotel in the capital Port-au-Prince, 11  days after the earthquake that devastated the city. 
 
He was the latest of more than 130 people who have been  pulled out still living from under wrecked buildings by rescue  teams from around the world since the Jan. 12 quake.  

After a four-hour rescue operation, the Haitian man was  carefully extracted from the rubble of the Hotel Napoli Inn in  downtown Rue du Centre. Rescuers said he appeared to be able to  move his limbs but was thirsty. 
 
To reach the survivor, two members of French and Greek  search-and-rescue teams had crawled into the tangled mass of  concrete rubble, wooden beams and corrugated iron that was all  that was left of the hotel in downtown Rue du Centre.  
They sawed away material to help the trapped man out.  

“He was holding the light to help us saw. He just said  ‘Thank You’ when we pulled him out,” Carmen Michalska, a  rescuer with the Greek team, told Reuters.  

Journalists and onlookers cheered and clapped as the man  was carried to an ambulance on a stretcher.  
“We have an indication there are more people in there. We  are going to go back in,” Michalska said.  
French, Greek and US rescuers had earlier located the  man, who had been heard tapping and talking under the rubble.  
The United Nations said yesterday the government had  declared the post-quake search and rescue phase over, but some  operations were still continuing.