Italian prosecutors are investigating the deaths after their bodies were recovered at sea with five migrants being questioned in the southern port of Salerno.
Spanish warship, Cantabria, docked at the port while carrying 375 migrants and the dead women kept in a refrigerated section of the warship.
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According to a report by La Repubblica, most of the 375 survivors were sub-Saharan Africans, from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, The Gambia and Sudan, with 90 women - eight of them pregnant - and 52 children.
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