The family of a Haitian man says he has survived four weeks under rubble¹ since the devastating² earthquake that struck on 12 January.

一位海地男子的家人称，1月12日海地大地震发生之后，该男子在废墟下存活了四星期之久。

Doctors said the 28-year-old man was dehydrated（脱水的） and wasted. His brother told the BBC someone had given him water during his 27-day ordeal³（痛苦的经验，严酷的考验） .

The BBC's Matthew Price spoke⁴ to the man's mother in the capital Port-au-Prince and said she was very emotional.

The man is being treated at a field hospital（野地医院，战地医院） at the airport.

More than 150,000 people were killed in the earthquake, with 1.5 million left homeless, but it is estimated less than 140 people were pulled alive from the rubble in Haiti's capital.

'Not impossible'

Our correspondent says the man's mother broke down（崩溃，垮掉） while discussing her son's apparent rescue and said she had not seen him since the quake.

The man is thought to have been pulled out from under the rubble of a building in Port-au-Prince on Monday.

Doctors said he was dehydrated and malnourished（营养不良的） , and that his condition suggested he had been trapped for a long time.

Dr Dushyantha Jayaweera, of the University of Miami field hospital, told Reuters TV: "It is unusual but not impossible.

"He was quite dehydrated and he was wasted, so there are certain things that suggest that it's true."

Dr Jayaweera described the man's condition as "reasonable".

"He's still sick, he cannot talk to anybody, but we are very optimistic with the condition of the patient."

Meanwhile, a Haitian judge has begun questioning 10 American missionaries⁵ accused of trying to take out of the country 33 children they claimed were orphaned⁶ by the quake.

Many of the children were later found to have parents.

The group's lawyer, Aviol Fleurant, said after proceedings⁷ on Monday: "Many of the parents who had the opportunity to speak out declared, in good faith, to have given their children to the Americans."

He also said that the Americans - who are mostly from the state of Idaho - had had the necessary documentation to take the children from the country.

Five of them have spoken to the judge, and the rest are expected to appear at a hearing later this week.

The leader of the group, Laura Silsby, was confident they would all be freed.

"I am trusting God to reveal all truth, and that we will be released and exonerated⁸（使免罪） of charges," she said.

The case has raised fears in Haiti that traffickers（贩毒者） would take advantage of the quake chaos⁹（混沌，混乱） to abduct¹⁰（诱拐，绑架） children.