Woman pulled from rubble as new tremor rocks Haiti

Ena Zizi said she was "all right, sort of" after being pulled from the wreckage of the main Roman Catholic Cathedral in Port-au-Prince.

Her rescue came before the latest tremor, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, struck about 35 miles north west of Port-au-Prince.

She said her faith as a Roman Catholic helped her through the ordeal.

"I talked only to my boss -– God," she said. "And I didn't need any more humans."

Doctors said she was dehydrated, had a dislocated hip and a broken leg.

Elsewhere, two women were pulled free from a flattened university building. while just before midnight on Tuesday, 26-year-old Lozama Hotteline was plucked to safety after being buried under a collapsed store.

There were no immediate reports of further casualties following the latest tremor but eye-witnesses said it led to widespread panic.

International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said the British search and rescue team was safe following the aftershock, the most powerful since the first earthquake.

"The word that I have received is that our search and rescue team is safe and are continuing their work," he said.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who called on the United Nations to establish a reconstruction agency to handle future disasters, said: "All of us have been deeply moved to action by the still unfolding tragedy of the people of Haiti – some of the poorest people in the world facing some of the most extreme hardships."

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said that donations to its Haiti appeal had reached 31.5m.