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

Police threw multiple rounds of tear gas and charged at the demonstrators who hurled bottles, rocks and flares at them.

Thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets across Serbia on Thursday, smashing windows of the governing party's headquarters in Novi Sad. In Belgrade, police fired tear gas to disperse protesters after clashes erupted with the president's supporters.