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Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec says Friday that Slovenia was not informed in advance of Hungary’s move and that the fence was “not necessary”.

A boat packed with up to 700 African migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya on Wednesday (Thursday NZ Time) and many are feared dead, officials and aid agencies said.

More than 2,000 migrants are said to have died this year in trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.

She said the migrants came from countries such as Senegal, Mali, Benin and Nigeria.

As many as 40 African migrants have reportedly drowned off the Libyan coast after their overcrowded inflatable boat capsized and sank.

A new video from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) aims to clarify the scale of the migrant crisis in Europe, as the numbers of people traveling across the Mediterranean, from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea, and Nigeria, continue to climb.