BEIRUT: Six people, including a child, were killed in violence across Syria on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said.
The child, a little girl, was killed by gunfire in the village of Khan Shaykhoun, in Idlib province in the northwest, where activists have reported a large-scale military build-up.
Troops also shot dead a man in the province's Jabal al-Zawiya hill district, the head of the Britain-based watchdog, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.
Two civilians died in clashes in the town of Al-Mayadin, in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, and another died in Daraya village, in Damascus province, Abdel Rahman said.
He said security forces were also carrying out raids and arrests in Deir Ezzor city.
In the flashpoint central province of Hama, a 44-year-old man was shot dead by a pro-regime militia in the village of Jarjara, Abdel Rahman added.
In the capital, dozens of people were arrested after a funeral turned into an anti-regime demonstration.
"Security forces have arrested dozens of people in the Mezzeh district of Damascus, who attended the funeral of a young man killed recently," the Observatory said.
In the northern province of Aleppo, explosions hit two security force buildings in the town of Aazaz which was heavily bombarded by troops on Wednesday, the Observatory said.
An activist said the blasts were probably reprisal attacks by the rebel Free Syrian Army.
Almost 8,500 people have died in the government's bloody crackdown on the revolt that erupted in Syria last March, most of them civilians, according to Observatory figures.
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