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Snowstorm causes four deaths in Turkey, Bulgaria: reports

Four more die in Romanian cold snap
Bucharest (AFP) Jan 24, 2010 - A cold snap in Romania has left four more people dead as temperatures are expected to plunge to minus 31 degrees Celsius (minus 24 Fahrenheit), Prime Minister Emil Boc said Sunday. "Unfortunately, for the last 24 hours, we have registered four deaths", in the capital and in the Bistrita Nasaud area in the north, in Satu-Mare in the northwest and Prahova in the south, Boc said in a videoconference with local government officials. In Bucharest, a 60-year-old homeless man was found dead in the street on Sunday, an ambulance official told AFP. He was the second cold victim in the capital, where another homeless man died Saturday. In Bistrita Nasaud, a 58-year-old man was found dead near a railway station, from where he was to take the train home, Mediafax news agency reported. Five other people died of exposure on Friday and Sunday in Romania, where ambulance services and police conduct joint patrols to identify homeless people and lead them to shelters. According to a local help group, about 15,000 homeless people live in the country, 5,000 of them in Bucharest.
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 Istanbul (AFP) Jan 24, 2010
 A fourth person was found dead Sunday due to a fierce snowstorm that caused power outages in Turkey and traffic chaos in neighbouring Bulgaria, Anatolia press agency reported.

The frozen body of Mehmet Aksit was found near the small town of Akkisla in central Kayseri province after relatives reported the 78-year-old missing.

On Saturday the frozen body of Nuri Turhan, an 81-year-old Korean war veteran with Alzheimer's disease, was found in a mountainous region of Turkey's Aydin province, where he had become lost the day before, newspapers said.

A 75-year-old man also died after suffering from hypothermia in the northwestern Turkish province of Tekirdag.

The snowstorm that began overnight Friday to Saturday also hit parts of Bulgaria, where a man suffering a heart attack died in the country's northeast region of Silistra when the ambulance he was in became trapped by snow.

The snowstorm led to power, gas and water cuts in Istanbul, a city of some 14 million people. In Turkey's western region, near the Greek and Bulgarian borders, villages and major roads were blocked by snow.

A bus also flipped over in an Istanbul suburb, injuring 10 people, Anatolia said.

Bulgarian authorities urged people to avoid travelling if possible. Heavy snow in the east of Bulgaria left dozens of cars and lorries stranded and trapped a train near the border with Romania.

Snowfall was expected to continue until Monday evening and could reach 35 centimetres (14 inches) in some areas of Istanbul, according to the city's natural disaster coordination centre.


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Two dead as wintry storms blast Bulgaria and Turkey
 Sofia (AFP) Jan 23, 2010
 Temperatures plummeted as low as minus 19 degrees Celsius (minus 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in Bulgaria and Turkey on Saturday as violent snowstorms caused transport chaos and left two dead. The Bulgarian authorities urged people to avoid travelling if possible after heavy snow in the east of the country left dozens of cars and lorries stranded and trapped a train near the border with Romania. ... read more






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