Two people were confirmed killed and a third feared dead as a bushfire blazed out of control in South Australia Wednesday, officials said.

More than 300 firefighters were tackling the blaze north of the city of Adelaide and reinforcements were on their way.

The blaze swept across more than 85,000 hectares (210,040 acres) of cropland, destroying numerous buildings and injuring an unspecified number of people including firefighters, the Australian Associated Press reported.

The blaze remained out of control as night fell and several towns were threatened, it said.

The deaths were confirmed by South Australia state Premier Jay Weatherill, who called it the "worst of news".

The Country Fire Service said the blaze continued to burn on a 40 km (24 mile) front, with a perimeter of about 211 km.

"This is a particularly nasty fire. It will run right through the night and into tomorrow," said CFS chief officer Greg Nettleton.

"It's going to be a long haul for many of our crews."

Bushfires are common in Australia's hotter months.

Earlier this month at least four people died in fires raging in parts of Western Australia.

Two major quakes jolt Peru, neighbors
Lima (AFP) Nov 25, 2015 –

A pair of major 7.6-magnitude earthquakes jolted eastern Peru near its border with Brazil on Tuesday, and were felt across several South American nations, but authorities had no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The first quake, which struck at 5:45 pm (2245 GMT), was 601 kilometers (373 miles) deep, according to the US Geological Survey.

It was located about 169 kilometers west-northwest of Iberia and 688 kilometers east-northeast of the capital Lima.

Five minutes later, a second temblor of the same strength rocked the same area but with a different epicenter.

"According to the real-time map there were two magnitude 7.6 in different locations," a USGS official explained. And there were three aftershocks, he added.

Buildings swayed in several Peruvian cities — Cuzco, Tacna, Pucallpa and Arequipa — as well as in parts of northern Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela, local media reported.

"It's such a deep movement that it moves out further, and is felt over a wider area," director of the private weather firm Ambiand, told Canal N.

"So far there have been no reports of damages but we are following this closely," civil defense chief Alfredo Murgueytio told the same network.

The navy ruled out the likelihood of a tsunami.

Peru lies on what is known as the "Ring of Fire" — an arc of fault lines that circles the Pacific Basin and is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

But the last major quake in Peru — a 7.9 — struck almost a decade ago — on August 15, 2007, and had its epicenter on the central coast, just west of Pisco. It killed 595 people.