Ballymena, Northern Ireland, has endured a third night of rioting by racist thugs targeting immigrants, with homes, stores and cars destroyed.

Rioters clashed with police in Ballymena and across County Antrim as masked groups set fire to a recreation center in Larne, where families had been temporarily settled in emergency housing.

Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena on Tuesday in the second successive night of disorder that followed a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town.