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.

Public disorder broke out in Northern Ireland for the third successive night on Wednesday with videos and pictures on social media purportedly showing a fire in a leisure center in the town of Larne after masked youths smashed the building’s windows.