France's biggest wildfire this summer has been brought under control, authorities said Thursday, after it killed one person and destroyed thousands of hectares of land and dozens of homes in the south.

Around 2,000 firefighters were mobilised in France's southern Aude department to contain the blaze that started Tuesday. Thirteen people have been injured, two of them seriously.

But authorities said the most severe fire in France's Mediterranean region in at least 50 years has been contained.

"The fire is under control," said Lucie Roesch, secretary general of the Aude prefecture.

The announcement came after regional authorities in Spain said late Wednesday that a wildfire near the Mediterranean tourist town of Tarifa, which had prompted evacuations, had been stabilised.

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