The deceased were from Choudhary family of Maneckpura-Dabhala village of Vijapur taluka in Mehsana. The dead bodies identified include that of a family comprising a father, mother, son and daughter.
According to police, the staff member who was punting the boat died, and another staff member is missing. The two other crew members on board are safe, reported Kyodo News.
Authorities rushed to the site of the incident at around 11:30 pm (local time) after a person on a separate panga boat called 911 to report about victims in the water.
The Italian authorities said that the three arrested had taken the illegal immigrants on a boat from the Turkish city of Izmir to the Italian city of Calabria despite bad weather conditions.
Out of the six men who were reported missing after a boat capsized in Toderu village in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district on Sunday evening, one body has been fished out while intense rescue operations are undergoing to trace the remaining five bodies.
Pakistani newspaper reported that a total of 51 students were recovered while 5 students have been retrieved alive from the Tanda Dam lake in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.