Haiti Man Survives on Coca-Cola for 11 Days

Mon, Jan 25th 2010, 12:00 AM

Haitians are questioning the government's decision to end the search for survivors, especially after a man was found alive soon after the search officially ended, according to the BBC.

Hours after Haiti's government formally ended the search for survivors, resucers pulled Wismond Exantus from the remains of the Napoli Inn Hotel in Haiti.

"I survived by drinking Coca-Cola and I ate some little tiny things," Exantus told the news agency AFP. He worked in the hotel's grocery store.

Dehydrated but smiling, Exantus should be out of the hospital in a a few days according to a French medic that saw him

Speaking before his rescue rescue, UN spokeswoman Elizabeth Byrs in Geneva said the decision to stop looking for survivors was "heartbreaking" but that it had been taken on the advice of experts.

Byrs said most search-and-rescue teams will soon leave Haiti, although some with heavy lifting equipment might stay behind.

Here is a list of some of some of Haiti's Remarkable Survivors:

Wismond Exantus, 24 - pulled out alive after 11 days
Emmannuel Buso, 21 - rescued after 10 days
Marie Carida, 84 - saved after 10 days
Mendji Bahina Sanon, 11 - trapped for eight days
Lozama Hotteline, 25 - pulled out after seven days
Elisabeth Joassaint, 15 days - buried for seven days, half her life
Ena Zizi, 69 - rescued after seven days

Not counting the bodies buried in the rubble, the Haitian government has estimated the death toll at 150,000. "Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble - 200,000, 300,000?" Haiti's communications minister, Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue, told the NY Daily News.


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