Cars struggled through a flooded road as Super Typhoon Doksuri hammered the Philippines.

Video shows buses, minivans, and SUVs battling through the deluge submerging a road in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental province, on July 25.

Homes were inundated with several inches of flood when rivers and waterways spilled over in the city, local authorities said.

Officials said school and government work have been suspended, while nine evacuation centres have been opened across Bacolod City to accommodate the affected families.

The typhoon, known as Egay in the Philippines, battered the country but weakened slightly overnight and is now the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, losing its super typhoon status on July 26.

It made landfall in Aparri Town, Cagayan province in the northern part of the country some 360 miles from the capital Manila at 3:10 am on July 26, state weather agency PAGASA said.

Forecasters now expect the storm to track northwest towards Taiwan and China, with landfall possible in eastern Guangdong or the Fujian on the Chinese mainland.