Floods overflowed onto a newly built bridge as Typhon Noru hammered the Philippines on Sunday.

Video shows the water submerging the structure in the town of Quezon in Palawan province as the storm slammed into the country on September 25 afternoon. The deluge was reportedly caused by a nearby river bursting its banks and spilling over into the adjacent community.

Noru, known locally as 'Karding,' made landfall in Quezon province east of the capital Manila on Sunday afternoon, September 25.

It was classified as a super typhoon after undergoing 'explosive intensification' overnight, packing maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometres per hour, state meteorologists said.

Noru made a second landfall in Aurora province in the evening before weakening and emerging over the country's western coast on September 26 morning.

The typhoon lashed the Philippines' largest island Luzon, leaving swathes of the heavily populated landmass submerged in flood.

In a press briefing on Monday, Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos said some 74,000 people in the northern provinces were preemptively evacuated, while at least five have been confirmed dead.

The Philippines, an archipelago of 7,600 islands, sits on the Pacific typhoon belt and sees an average of 20 storms yearly.