Man threatens to jump off bridge at Hong Kong protest site


A man standing on top of a bridge overlooking a pro-democracy protest area shouts at onlookers and threatens to jump, near the central government offices in Hong Kong on October 5, 2014

Hong Kong (AFP) - A man threatened to jump from an overhead pedestrian walkway in the middle of a Hong Kong protest site on Sunday, saying he was angry his children's schools had been shut by the demonstrations.

The man, who said his surname was Yau, scaled the covered bridge in the city's Admiralty district -- the epicentre of the protests -- and berated protesters for five hours, at one point brandishing a knife.

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