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A man who suffered a spinal cord injury during the devastating Haiti earthquake in January is making a "miraculous" recovery from his injuries, it is reported.

Bazelais Suy leapt from a four-storey building during the earthquake that cost hundreds of thousands of lives, CBS reports.

He suffered a serious spinal injury which doctors claim "broke him in two", the news service says.

"It's beyond anyone's expectation for him to be walking," said Dr Ivankovich, who discovered Suy in the rubble after he had been lying there untreated for five days and took him back to Chicago for treatment.

"He was even thinking of getting up on my motorcycle, which I told him no."

Suy has also benefitted from a programme of physiotherapy after his surgery and is now walking and smiling again.

The 2010 Haiti earthquake claimed the lives of around 230,000 people and injured a further 300,000 caught up in the disaster.

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