An American teacher living in New Zealand and feared missing after the Haiti earthquake is safe and well.
The family of Samuel Picketts, 59, said from the United States today he was alive and okay, the New Zealand Herald website reported.
Mr Picketts, who teaches English and coaches volleyball at Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate in Otara, Auckland, was on holiday in the Caribbean and was feared to be in Haiti when the quake struck.
He had not contacted his family but had now done so and was fine.
Apparently Mr Picketts had not been in Haiti.
The quake has claimed two New Zealand children and their Haitian father.
New Zealander Emily Sanson-Rejouis is with her youngest daughter, Alyanah, two, in a Dominican Republic hospital where the toddler is being treated for a broken leg after being dragged from rubble of a hotel on Port-au-Prince.
Mrs Sanson-Rejouis' husband, Emmanuel, and two other daughters, Kofie-Jade, five and Zenzie, three, all died as the building crumbled.
Mr Rejouis' body and that of one of his daughters had been recovered but family members in Auckland yesterday said they did not know which daughter was still missing.
Mrs Sanson-Rejouis, 37, was working in the United Nations office in the Haitian capital when the quake struck, and rushed to look for her family when the tremors stopped.
