Angry protesters have set fire to the offices of Serbia’s governing populist party in a western town and clashed with police in the capital Belgrade in another evening of violent protests

Serbia's police used teargas and crowd control vehicles on Friday evening in Belgrade to disperse anti-government protesters who threw firecrackers and flares at police officers in what is seen as a major escalation of the nine-month-long protests.

Serbia’s police say they have detained scores of demonstrators who took part in anti-government protests throughout the country this week