Snowstorms and temperatures plunging to minus 19.2 degrees Celsius (-2.5 Fahrenheit) left three people dead in Bulgaria, media reports said on Friday.
The frozen body of a 56-year-old homeless man was found on Friday morning on a street in the western town of Dupnitsa, state BTA news agency reported.
Two more people were found in the northeastern regions of Ruse and Shumen - a 70-year-old woman who got lost in the snowstorm, and a 59-year-old man whose body was found in a roadside snowdrift, Trud newspaper said on Friday.
Heavy snowfall and strong winds have paralysed traffic in several regions in northeastern Bulgaria since Wednesday, coupled with a sharp drop in temperatures.
Temperatures dropped as low as minus 19.2 degrees Celsius (-2.5 Fahrenheit) in the eastern town of Kyustendil on Friday morning, the weather services said. - AFP