Twenty-three of the bodies were recovered from the Mediterranean after the rubber dinghy the women were travelling aboard sank off Libya on Friday.
A Spanish naval ship deployed in the European Union’s Operation Sophia naval mission recovered the dead, along with 64 survivors.
Meanwhile, another three women died in a separate shipwreck.
Six rescue operations were carried out in total on Friday, making it one of the busiest days for rescues in recent months.
Another seven people were found dead and 900 saved on Wednesday.
Humanitarian groups have stated that around 2,500 migrants were picked up at sea over the last four or five days, making it the most intense period for rescues on the Mediterranean since Italy signed a deal with Libya to slow departures of boats carrying migrants.
With ANSA
