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A shop worker buried in the Haiti quake has been pulled alive from the rubble after 11 days - and told how he survived on beer and cookies.
Dozens of onlookers cheered as Wismond Exantus emerged smiling from a deep tunnel drilled by rescuers.
His brother had alerted a Greek rescue team after hearing a voice 20 feet beneath the surface rubble of a hotel grocery shop in the capital Port-au-Prince.
Mr Exantus had initially survived by diving under a desk when the rubble started to fall around him as the quake struck.
The 24-year-old found himself trapped in a tiny space but discovered a few select groceries within arms' reach - beer, biscuits and cola.
Speaking from his hospital bed he said: 'I was hungry. But every night I thought about the revelation that I would survive.
'I would eat anything I found. After the quake I didn't know when it was day and when it was night.
'It was God who was tucking me away in his arms. It gave me strength.'
The survivor then turned to his family and said: 'When you are in a hole I will try to reach out to you, too.'
Brother Jean Elit Jean Pierre said Mr Exantus worked as a cashier in the store on the ground floor of the Hotel Napoli.
Lt Col Christophe Renou, a French Civil Protection official who was part of the rescue team, said rescuers used chain saws, heavy duty drills and hand saws.
Earlier, the United Nations announced the Haitian government had declared an end to rescue operations.
Despite the move dozens of international teams continue to pick through rubble of the quake which struck on January 12 and has claimed an estimated 200,000 lives.
