Video: Protester threatens to throw himself from bridge as police clash with pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong

A pro-democracy demonstrator has threatened to throw himself from a bridge in the latest dramatic protest scenes to hit Hong Kong.

Police armed with pepper spray and batons clashed with demonstrators in the Mog Kok district, in Kowloon, overnight. 

Tens of thousands of people, many of them students, have poured into the city's streets in the past week to peacefully protest China's restrictions on the election for the city's top leader. #MORE video and pics below:

But the area has been witness to violent clashes between pro-democracy student protesters and their antagonists over the weekend. 

The demonstrator shouted and waved to crowds below, threatening to throw himself off the bridge as he protested against the blocking of the roads near the Government Complex. 

Protesters are calling for open elections and the resignation of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who last night agreed to hold talks with the protest leaders in a bid to calm the growing unrest.