A 13-year-old girl is among those being charged in connection with rioting in Northern Ireland last week. The teenager is one of four people due to appear in court today charged with rioting in Ballymena in Co Antrim last Wednesday.

Dozens of mostly young men torched homes and smashed in windows in a Northern Irish town late Wednesday, in a third night of what officials described as coordinated “racist thuggery” against the community’s ethnic minorities.

For a second night in a row, riots rocked the town of Ballymena in Northern Ireland on Tuesday, lasting into the early hours of Wednesday morning. Protesters used petrol bombs and fireworks as they clashed with the authorities.