Field hospitals continue to treat injured Haitians

It came hours after Haiti's government declared a formal end to the search for survivors.

Onlookers cheered as Wismond Exantus - smiling and apparently in a good condition - emerged on a stretcher from what remains of the Napoli Inn Hotel.

He later told reporters that soft drinks and snacks had kept him going.

The man smiled but said nothing as he was pulled free.

Covered in dust, he was gingerly carried out to a waiting ambulance and taken to a nearby French field hospital.

He was trapped with four other victims who he said ceased moving about two days ago.

"I survived by drinking Coca-Cola and I ate some little tiny things," Mr Exantus, who worked in the hotel's grocery store, told news agency AFP from his bed in a French field hospital.

"Every night I thought about the revelation that I would survive," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press agency.

'Miracle'

Greek, French and US rescue teams were involved in the two-and-a-half-hour operation to bring him out of the remains of the hotel.

A French rescue worker, Lt Col Christophe Renou, described his survival as "a miracle".

He said rescuers - who had been alerted by the man's family - had managed to get water to him while they worked to dig him out.

Lt Col Renou said the man had probably been helped by the fact that the 5-6m (16-20ft) of debris above him was largely wood, rather than concrete.

He said the man had told his rescuers that another four people were trapped with him but that they had stopped moving a couple of days ago.

The BBC's Adam Mynott, in Port-au-Prince, says some Haitians have questioned the announcement that search-and-rescue operations are to end - and the discovery of Mr Exantus will have lent weight to their argument.

The United Nations had said the day before that Haiti's government had declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over.

The announcement came a day after two other people, an 84-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man, were pulled alive from the rubble in Port-au-Prince.

UN spokeswoman Elizabeth Byrs says 132 people have been rescued by international search teams.

On Friday the official government death toll from the quake rose to 110,000.

Ms Byrs said humanitarian relief efforts were still being scaled up in Port-au-Prince, as well as in the towns of Jacmel, Leogane and other areas affected by the earthquake.

Ms Byrs added that some rescue teams were leaving, as they were exhausted and there was now little hope of finding more people alive under the rubble.

Those that remained were "concentrating more and more on humanitarian aid for those who need it", she said.

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At least 75,000 bodies have so far been buried in mass graves, Haiti's government has said. Many more remain uncollected in the streets.

An estimated 1.5 million people were left homeless by the 7.0-magnitude quake, which some have estimated has killed as many as 200,000 people.

Survivors

The two people rescued on Friday had spent 10 days under rubble following the devastating earthquake.

Doctors say the woman, who is 84, is in a grave condition, but that they are doing all they can to save her.

And an Israeli search team pulled a 21-year-old man alive from the rubble. He is said to be in a stable condition.

The 84-year-old woman survivor, rescued on Friday after 10 days in the rubble, is being treated by doctors at the main city hospital with intravenous fluids and drugs.

"I'm trying to find out how I can help her survive," Dr Ernest Benjamin said. "It's worth everything to try to save her."

Her son told the agency he had heard her cries on Thursday morning and, almost a day later, he dug her out with the help of friends.

The Israeli team which rescued the young man, Emmannuel Buso, told the Associated Press news agency that they had called out to him near the debris of his home and to their surprise, he responded.

In an interview with AP from his hospital bed, he describes coming out of the shower when the earthquake hit.

"I felt the house dancing around me," he said. "I didn't know if I was up or down".

He described passing out in the rubble, dreaming at times that he could hear his mother's voice.

He said he had no food, and drank his own urine to keep thirst at bay.

The head of the Israeli team, Major Amir Ben David, said the rescue had given hope more people could be found alive.

In Port-au-Prince, life is slowly returning to normal, with shops opening and buses running - although many residents are continuing to leave the devastated capital.