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Thu 01 Jan 2005Troops kill Iraqi couple in front of childrenAn Iraqi man and his wife have been shot dead in front of their five children by US soldiers who fired on the car in which the family was travelling.The children survived but emerged from the car spattered with blood, screaming and traumatised. The soldiers tended to them and brought them to hospital.