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.
According to the Police, they had arrested five people “on suspicion of riotous behaviour” and that seventeen officers had been injured, “with some requiring hospital treatment”, in the previous night’s violence in the town, located about forty-five kilometers from the capital, Belfast.
