Baghdad- US soldiers found the bodies of 14 civilian men in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, officials said Thursday.

A government spokesman said the dead had not yet been identified.

The Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported late Wednesday that the bodies of two Iraqi soldiers had been found in Tigris, south of the capital Baghdad.

The soldiers from Wasit Province had been tortured before being killed, according to the report. (dpa)