Disaster officials rescued residents stranded in Super Typhoon Doksuri floods in the Philippines.

Video shows volunteers from the Magsaysay Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office assisting locals across a swollen river in Occidental Mindoro province on July 25.

Residents held onto a safety rope for balance as they walked in the knee-deep water.

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 touched down 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. Doksuri made a second landfall in Calayan Town in the same province at 9:30 am today.

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.