This is the dramatic moment seawater smashed through the glass walls of a luxury hotel in China, flooding the dining hall on Sunday.
Hotel guests screamed at the sound of shattering glass and then looked on aghast as seawater and debris flowed into the dining room of the Sheraton Dameisha Resort Hotel in Shenzen.
Typhon Mangkhut has now made landfall in China’s Guangdong Province the country’s most populous region, after wreaking havoc in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau and killing dozens in the Philippines.