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Hours after the  Kurunegala High Court on Friday passed the death sentence on a bus driver and a conductor involved in a deadly crash that killed 41 people at the Yaangalmodara railway crossing eight years ago, our journalist Wasantha Ramanayake captured this picture which shows danger still lurks at the same crossing. With the railway gate out of order, motorists wait at the unprotected crossing for the train to pass.

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