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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