Houses were torched and families forced to flee during disorder on Tuesday night

Police fired water cannons at protesters after bricks were hurled at officers

Hundreds of people gather in Newtownabbey, where youths pull bricks from homes to make projectiles

Twenty-seven people have been made homeless as a result of the unrest, which broke out following protests over a knife attack that left a man seriously injured

Houses were torched and families forced to flee during disorder on Tuesday night

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