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A HAITIAN man who has been pulled alive from rubble in Port-au-Prince may have been trapped since an earthquake devastated the city 27 days ago.

Evan Muncie, a 28-year-old rice vendor, was being treated in a US-run field hospital last night, a day after being discovered in the ruins of a marketplace which collapsed in the January 12th quake.