An official statement on Chinese television denounced what it called a "barbaric attack and a gross violation of Chinese sovereignty".

I strongly condemn the barbaric and reprehensible attack in Monterrey, Mexico yesterday.

But the Shia Muslim opposition party Al Wefaq said the boy had been the victim of a "barbaric" attack.

Opponents denounced the hunt, proposed for December, as a barbaric attack on defenseless animals and called hunters a greater danger to public safety than bears.

It is a particularly cruel and barbaric attack, utilizing weapons of mass destruction.

This is verifiable to Israelis based on continued barbaric attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians.

New barbaric attacks, with 90 victims, are reported in the first months of 2012.

No presidential spokesman to condemn such barbaric attacks.

There is no doubt whatsoever that this appalling, barbaric attack on fundamental rights is the biggest struggle currently facing democracies.

We condemn this barbaric attack, to which the police and the legal authorities turned a blind eye.