Recent heavy snowfalls and temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius claimed yet another life in Bulgaria, taking the cold snap death toll up to seven. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)
Recent heavy snowfalls and temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius claimed yet another life in Bulgaria, taking the cold snap death toll up to seven.
The body of the 46-yaer-old Petranka Vassileva was found Tuesday buried in a snow bank on near a road to the village of Pamukchi.
The woman was declared missing on January 3 when she did not returned home after taking her way back without thinking about the extremely bad meteorological conditions.
Last week an 80-year-old woman froze to death in her apartment in the Danube town of Lom. Her body was found on Saturday when a neighbour alerted the police after failing to contact her for days.
On Sunday, a 61-year-old driver from the coastal town of Kavarna, who was found frozen and fell into a comma, passed away.
Earlier last week a 65-year-old man and an 82-year-old woman were found frozen to death outside their homes and a kidney patient died on his way to hospital. A young woman was killed when a bank's balcony collapsed on her.
Record-low temperatures were recorded in the Danubian Plain on Saturday, the mercury falling to minus 31.6 degrees Celsius in the town of Sevlievo, Central Bulgaria.
Several towns reported temperatures breaking the records set in 1993 - Knezha (minus 27 degrees Celsius), Veliko Turnovo (minus 20.2 degrees Celsius) and Lovech (minus 19.5 degrees Celsius).