For a third night, riots rocked the town of Ballymena in Northern Ireland, with protesters throwing petrol bombs.

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.

Violence continued in Northern Ireland as a fifth night of rioting saw police officers targeted with projectiles and water cannons used to disperse thugs.