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.

The Embassy in London said Filipinos were among those targeted in racist riots in Northern Ireland, reportedly triggered by an alleged sexual assault of a young