Siirt State Hospital

A total of 152 people were injured due to a chlorine gas leak in Turkey's southeastern province of Siirt on Sept. 11, according to a statement from the Health Ministry.

The ministry stated 60 of the injured people were treated by the Turkish Red Crescent in a tent, as 92 people were hospitalized.

One soldier was wounded in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) car bomb attack in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Sept. 10, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A PKK militant inside a bomb-laden car refused to obey stop calls by gendarmerie forces at the Duru Gendarmerie Military Post some 15 kilometers away from the district at around 6 a.m.

The body of the last miner missing after a mine collapse in the Şirvan district of Turkey's southeastern province of Siirt on Nov. 17 was recovered early on Dec. 12, Doğan News Agency has reported.   

İbrahim Kılınç, 21, was the last of the miners of 16 to be recovered after the collapse at the Madenköy copper mine. 

The body of another miner was recovered on Dec. 10 after a mine collapse in the Şirvan district of Turkey's southeastern province of Siirt on Nov. 17, Doğan News Agency has reported.   

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has announced that over 40 anti-personnel mines have been seized in a security operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

A total of 41 mines were seized in an operation in the Ortaklar region of the Şemdinli district in southeastern Hakkari province on Sept. 22. 

Three people were killed on early Feb. 14 when a two-story house collapsed in a village in the southeastern province of Siirt.

The building, which housed 10 people from the same family, collapsed on early Feb. 14 for an unknown reason in Siirt's Ekmekçiler village.

A police officer was killed on Jan. 15 in the southeastern province of Siirt during a counter-terrorism operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

According to security sources, police squads extended their operation to an address in Ulus.

One police officer has been wounded while one suspect has been killed in clashes in Turkey's southeastern province of Siirt. 

The gunfight erupted after patrol officers ordered two suspected individuals, a man and a woman, to stop for inspection in Siirt's Kooperatif neighborhood at 5.30 p.m. on Nov 3.