A 47-year-old man has been charged with throwing a petrol bomb after disturbances broke out in Newtownabbey on Saturday, the second consecutive night of trouble in Northern Ireland. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said 30 petrol bombs were thrown at police and three vehicles were hijacked and set alight during rioting in the loyalist O’Neill Road and Doagh Road area. Police said on Saturday evening they were responding to reports of disorder at the Cloughfern roundabout. The force said a crowd of approximately 20-30 people, consisting of young people and older men, gathered between 7.30pm and 10.30pm. The 47-year-old man is due to appear at Belfast magistrates court on 26 April charged with riot and throwing a petrol bomb. Police appealed for calm in the area and asked anyone with influence in the community to try to make sure young people did not get caught up in criminality. The Police Federation for Northern Ireland called for an end to the violence, saying people destroying their own communities was “not the way to protest or vent”. The north area commander Ch Supt Davy Beck said: “This was an orchestrated attack on police who were carrying out their duties to help protect the people of Newtownabbey … No one, no matter what line of work they are in deserves to be subjected to any kind of violence. “The officers who serve the Newtownabbey area are fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters, they have families who wait every day on their loved ones coming home, hoping they have not been injured, or worse.” On Friday night eight people were arrested and 27 police officers were injured during riots in Belfast and Londonderry. Fifteen officers were injured in Belfast and 12 in Derry after being targeted by mainly young people. Two boys aged 13 and 14 were among eight people arrested in connection with riots in a loyalist area of Belfast. Police said on Saturday night that seven people including three teenage boys had been charged with riot over the Sandy Row disturbances. Four adults – three men aged 25, 21 and 18, and a woman aged 19 – are due to appear at Belfast magistrates court on 30 April. Three teenagers aged 17, 14 and 13 are due to appear at Belfast youth court on the same date. The first minister, Arlene Foster, urged young people “not to get drawn into disorder”, saying violence “will not make things better”. The Democratic Unionist party leader said: “I know that many of our young people are hugely frustrated by the events of this last week but causing injury to police officers will not make things better.” She added: “I send my strong support to all of the rank-and-file police officers that are on duty over this Easter weekend. I appeal to our young people not to get drawn into disorder which will lead to them having criminal convictions and blighting their own lives. I also ask parents to play their part and be proactive in protecting their young adults.”