We were thus able to learn that the island has just 5000 inhabitants and that the number of immigrants who have died on the shores of its "mare nostrum" in the last 15 or 20 years is almost double this figure.
Мы узнали в этой связи, что на острове проживает около 5000 жителей; и вдвое больше иммигрантов погибло на побережье их "mare nostrum" за последние 15-20 лет.