Terrifying Moment Selfie-Taking Women are Swept Away after being Pummelled by a Huge Wave

This is the terrifying moment two women and a child were swept aside by powerful sea waves as they posed for photos during Typhoon Ragasa.

The video, taken in the South Horizons district of Hong Kong, showed the trio cautiously stepping away from the seafront as a powerful, enormous wave rose high above them.

As the wave crashed down on them, they were violently pushed into a metal fence.

And as the water around them receded, they were seen struggling to get back up again.

It comes as a weakened Typhoon Ragasa pushed west along the southern Chinese coast toward Vietnam on Thursday after flooding streets and homes in the economic hub of Guangdong province and causing deaths in Taiwan and the Philippines earlier in the week.

In the Guangdong city of Yangjiang, over 10,000 trees were damaged, and branches floated on the water in submerged streets. Crews used excavators to clear toppled trees and worked to clear blocked roads, Yangjiang Daily reported.

Nearly half a million households suffered power outages. More than a third of those homes remained without electricity Thursday morning, the newspaper reported.

Streets in the city of Zhuhai turned into rivers, and rescuers used inflatable boats to rescue stranded residents. Water inundated some first-floor homes in older neighborhoods, Southern Metropolis Daily reported.