A man has been pulled alive from the rubble¹ in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince - two weeks after the earthquake that destroyed the city.

海地大地震发生两星期之后，救援队在太子港某处废墟下发现一名生还男子。

Rico Dibrivell was rescued from the rubble after being trapped for 12 days

US troops rescued the man from the ruins of a building in the centre of the city, and he was taken to hospital.

He had been trapped under the rubble for 12 days, the US military said, and was severely² dehydrated脱水的.

The rescue comes 14 days after the 7.0-magnitude quake, which killed as many as 200,000 people.

Haiti has been rattled³撞击 by at least 50 tremors震动，颤抖 since the original quake.

The survivor⁶, a man in his early 30s, was pulled from the ruins covered in dust and wearing only underpants衬裤，内衣裤.

"He was buried in the rubble for 12 days. The man had a broken leg and severe dehydration," a statement from the US military said.

The Associated Press美联社 named the man as Rico Dibrivell and said he was discovered initially⁷ by a group of Haitians who pulled him from the rubble of a shop that had been repeatedly looted抢劫，洗劫.

Although he had been trapped by an aftershock rather than the initial earthquake, the man is the longest survivor so far under the rubble.

On Saturday, Haiti's government declared the search and rescue phase阶段 for survivors⁸ over.

It is estimated more than 130 people have been pulled alive by rescue teams in the Haitian capital since the quake.

However, many more have been rescued by ordinary Haitians, often with their bare hands.

Aid call

Earlier, Haitian President Rene Preval made an urgent appeal for more tents to house up to a million people left homeless by the tremor⁴.

Mr Preval said 200,000 tents were needed before the expected start of the rainy season in May.

His call came as donor⁹ nations and organisations met in Montreal, Canada, to assess评价 the aid effort.

Mr Preval, who lost his house in the quake, is planning to move into a tent on the lawn of the destroyed National Palace in the centre of the capital.

The Haitian government wants to relocate some 400,000 people, currently in makeshift临时的，凑合的 camps across the capital, to temporary tent villages outside the city.

But aid workers warned that if the camps were too big they could pose security problems, including robberies, rapes¹⁰ and gang activities.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she "resented怨恨，愤恨" criticism of American assistance to Haiti.

She pinpointed¹¹查明 some media outlets¹² which had "either misunderstood or deliberately¹³故意地 misconstrued误解，曲解 what was a civilian¹⁴ and military response".