The two dead, a girl in her mid-teens and a woman in her 30s, had crossed the border with a group of refugees and had been sleeping outdoors.
The women were part of a group of 19 migrants, including 11 children, found Saturday by border police near the southeastern town of Malko Tarnovo, a mountainous rural region of Bulgaria.
The area was under harsh winter conditions with high winds, some 12 inches of snow and freezing temperatures.
All of the children, aged four to 16, were taken to hospital with frostbite and two adults were in critical condition, a hospital spokesman told Focus news agency.
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