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Charges over Ballymena riots as centre housing foreign families attacked
Three teenagers have been charged with rioting in Ballymena - as a community centre housing migrant families affected by the violence was attacked.
An 18-year-old man, and two boys aged 15 and 17, are expected to appear before Ballymena Magistrates' Court today. The 15-year-old has also been charged with criminal damage.
Two other teenage boys who were arrested during the disorder have been released on bail, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said. Masked youths attacked Larne Leisure Centre and set it on fire on Wednesday evening after it emerged some of the foreign families fleeing the rioting were being temporarily held there.
There have been calls for Northern Ireland's communities minister to resign after he was accused of inflaming tensions in a social media post. Prior to the attack, he wrote he had been made aware individuals had been "temporarily moved" to the building "following the disturbances in Ballymena.
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