(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) Two migrants have frozen to death after being abandoned by traffickers in south-eastern Bulgaria, dpa quoted authorities as saying Sunday. The victims, a girl of about 14 and a woman aged about 30, were part of a group of 19 people that crossed over illegally from Turkey to the area of Malko Tarnovo, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry said. The group was stranded after their guides left them behind in a forest in the mountains, in heavy snow and subzero temperatures, border police chief Antonio Angelov told the bTV channel. The survivors, 10 of them children, were hospitalized with frostbite.
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