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A teenage girl has been pulled out of the rubble in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, a full 15 days after the earthquake struck, rescuers say.
They said she was happy and shocked despite being severely dehydrated and having a leg injury.
A rescue worker described the discovery of the girl, two weeks after the quake destroyed the city, as a "miracle".
Her rescue comes five days after the Haitian government officially ended the search and rescue operation.
At least 130 people have been pulled alive from the rubble in the days that followed the 12 January earthquake.
On Wednesday, Haitian President Rene Preval said that "nearly 170,000" dead bodies had now been counted following the quake.
The girl, who has not been named, was found in the rubble of a school which one of her relatives said she had just started attending.
The girl was 16 years old, according to Agence France-Presse.
"She just said 'Thank you', she's very weak, which suggests that she's been there for 15 days," said Samuel Bernes, the head of the rescue team that discovered her.
He described her location within the rubble as "in a pocket, surrounded by concrete".
A sixteen-year-old girl, Darlene Etienne, was pulled out from underneath the rubble of a collapsed school in Haiti yesterday, fifteen days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the country, devastating most buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Etienne had been studying at school in the capital when the tremors stared, collapsing the building. She had apparently survived by drinking water from a bathroom, and the ''Al Jazeera'' news agency reports rescuers had heard her mumbling something about having some Coca-Cola.

When pulled from the rubble, she was reportedly dehydrated, but happy. Etienne was taken to a French-run field hospital, and later to a hospital ship moored off the Haitian coast for further treatment. "She just said 'Thank you', she's very weak, which suggests that she's been there for 15 days," said the head of the rescue team that recovered the girl, Samuel Bernes, noting that she was located "in a pocket, surrounded by concrete".

"She couldn't really talk to us or say how long she'd been there but I think she'd been there since the earthquake. I don't think she could have survived even a few more hours," rescuer Claude Fuilla told the Associated Press.

"I don't know how she happened to resist that long," said another rescue worker, JP Malaganne, as quoted by the BBC.

"It all happened very quickly, but rescue teams managed to get her out and she was covered in layers of dust and concrete," said Jonah Hull, a correspondent for ''Al Jazeera'', describing the rescue effort as being "a delicate process".

Five days ago, the Haitian government officially ended its search for living people under the rubble; upwards of 130 people have been rescued from underneath the remains of collapsed buildings.