Pieter Wittenberg, a 78-year-old Dutch aid worker known for his humanitarian efforts on Lesbos, has passed away after a serious illness. His death comes months after he was acquitted of human smuggling charges, having ceased his public and humanitarian work last month due to his health.

An overhead line has fallen onto a fully occupied ICE train near Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, leaving approximately 600 passengers stranded on the Berlin to Munich route.

Pieter Wittenberg, a Dutch humanitarian known for aiding boat refugees on the Greek