More than 20 police officers have been injured following overnight disorder in Portadown.
They came under sustained attack from heavy masonry, fireworks and beer kegs last night.
A PSNI spokesperson said 22 officers were injured and two people were arrested.
A woman aged in her 50s and a man in his 30s were arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour and other offences in connection with the disorder.
The latest incidents followed three consecutive nights of violence, mainly in Ballymena, Co Antrim, and other Loyalist areas.
Tensions were first raised on Monday after two 14-year-old boys were charged with a serious sexual assault on a teenage girl in the town. Violence flared after it emerged the boys were immigrants, and not from Northern Ireland. The charges were read via a Romanian interpreter to the boys, whose lawyer told the court they denied the charge, the BBC reported.
PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher warned yesterday that his officers would be coming after the “bigots and racists” behind the disorder.
There was also sporadic disorder elsewhere in Northern Ireland last night following mainly peaceful protests, including in the Templemore Avenue area of east Belfast.
RTÉ News reports bricks were thrown through the windows of two houses in Avoniel Road in Belfast in what police have termed a racially motivated attack.
A small fire at the Manse Road roundabout in Newtownabbey was also reported, and anti-immigration hate graffiti is being investigated in Newtownards.
Meanwhile, a house fire in the Mount Street area of Coleraine which led to the evacuation of a family with three young children, is being treated as deliberate and a racially motivated hate crime.
The Chair of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, Liam Kelly, said those involved in the recent disorder were “stoking fear and prejudice”.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, he called for the “disgraceful attacks” to end and for a “sense of normality” to return to the streets of Northern Ireland.
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