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.

Rioters clashed with police in Ballymena, and masked groups set fire to a recreation center in Larne, where families had been given temporary shelter.

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.