The dead were a 24 year-old man and a 15-year-old girl from the southwestern district of Bhola, the report said without giving further details.

It denied earlier media reports of dozens of deaths in northern regions, quoting district hospital officials and administrators who report deaths.

"There is no cold-related deaths anywhere in these districts so far," the BSS report said. But it added that the number of patients being admitted to hospitals with pneumonia and breathing difficulties had increased.

A spokesman for the Bangladesh Meteorological Department told AFP the country's lowest temperature on Wednesday was 6.2 Celsius (43.2 Fahrenheit) in the southwestern district of Jessore.

Tuesday's lowest temperature was nine Celsius in northwestern Dinajpur district.

"These temperatures are below the average for the time of year which is between 11 and 12 degrees Celsius," he said.

Although some areas would continue to see normal weather, temperatures were expected to drop further in other parts, he added.

A wave of unseasonally cold weather across South Asia has so far killed at least 204 people.

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