Hundreds of masked rioters have attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in Northern Ireland’s Ballymena in the second night of disorder described by police as “racially motivated” following a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town.
Police said on Wednesday that they had arrested five people “on suspicion of riotous behaviour” and that 17 officers had been injured, “with some requiring hospital treatment”, in the previous night’s violence in the town, located about 45km (30 miles) from the capital, Belfast.
