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Ongoing reconstruction of buildings in Turkey's terror-stricken southeastern region is planned to be finished within the next six months, Environment and Urbanization Minister Mehmet Özhaseki said on Sept. 6. 

An eight-month pregnant woman has died after no doctors could be found at a hospital in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of Şırnak.

Peyruze Pulat, 31, who was hospitalized due to suffering from severe aches, died at the Cizre State Hospital after an hour in intensive care, Doğan News Agency reported on Aug. 28. 

Two outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed in the southeastern province of Şırnak on June 2. 

According to a statement released from Şırnak Governor's Office, security forces carried out an operation in the province's Uludere district and killed two militants. 

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in a clash with outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on May 31, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

The clash occurred during operations launched by 10,073 security forces officers in six different districts. 

The police officer who killed two children in the Silopi district of the southeastern province of Şırnak with his armored car did not know how to operate the vehicle, according to a report prepared by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), daily Cumhuriyet reported May 22. 

A local court in the southeastern province of Şırnak on May 9 ordered the arrest of an officer who crashed an armored vehicle into a house in the province's Silopi district, causing the death of two children while they were sleeping, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The governor's office in the southeastern province of Şırnak has said the police officers who caused the death of two children by an accident in the Silopi district were not intoxicated, refuting claims of the residents of the area. 

Two children were killed after a police vehicle crashed into a house in the Silopi district of the southeastern province of Şırnak late on May 3. 

The tragic incident occurred while the children were asleep, as the armored police vehicle crashed into the house, Doğan News Agency reported on May 4.

Construction efforts have reached the final stage in four districts of the southeastern province of Şırnak, which were severely damaged in clashes between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the security forces over the last two years. 

A total of 66 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been "neutralized" in security operations in one week, the Turkish Interior Ministry announced on April 24. 

According to the ministry, 53 militants were killed, eight surrendered and five were captured alive in some 321 ground and air operations carried out between April 17 and 24.