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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi police found 40 bullet-riddled bodies in Baghdad Monday, an official with Baghdad emergency police said.
Most of the bodies showed signs of torture, their hands were cuffed, and some of the bodies were blindfolded, the official said.
Police could identify 17 bodies, all of them civilians, the official said.
Also Monday, two British soldiers were killed and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their convoy north of Basra, a British military spokesman said.
One of the wounded soldiers is in critical condition, the spokesman said.
The deaths bring the British military death toll in the Iraq war to 117.
Three U.S. troops were killed Sunday, the U.S. military said Monday.
Two Marines were killed in Iraq's Anbar province. They were assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 and died as a result of "enemy action." A U.S. soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device near Baquba. The soldier was with the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.
The deaths brought to 2,644 the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war. Seven American civilian contractors of the military also have died in the conflict.
A U.S. military news release Monday said Iraqi soldiers "seized a large weapons cache" Saturday after searching the Al-Nida Mosque in northern Baghdad, and U.S. soldiers detained four "suspected terrorists" Saturday after searching a home in southern Baghdad.
Iraqi police also announced Monday that 23-year-old Iraqi soccer star Ghanim Khudayer was kidnapped Saturday from his home in southwest Baghdad.
Dozens of Olympic athletes and officials have been kidnapped by insurgents in the past year, and some of them were killed.
Al Qaeda leader captured
Sunday, the U.S. military and Iraq's national security adviser announced that al Qaeda's No. 2 operative in Iraq, Hamed Jumaa Al Saeedi, had been arrested.
National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie said al Saeedi was "directly responsible" for Haitham al-Badri, the man believed to have been the mastermind of the Askariya Mosque bombing in Samarra in February.
Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife escalated after that attack.
Al Saeedi, also known as Abu Rana and Abu Humam, is said to be second in command in the terrorist group al Qaeda in Iraq, behind Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
Al-Masri succeeded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi after he was killed during a U.S. airstrike in June.
"This is a very important development," Iraq's Planning Minister Barham Salih told CNN.
"It comes in the wake of killing of Zarqawi and also a number of Zarqawi associates. Deliberate intelligence work both by Iraqi forces as well as multinational forces have dealt a very severe blow to al Qaeda organization in Iraq."
Al Saeedi and one of his followers were captured during a raid Friday that ended in a residential building, Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie said at a news conference, according to CNN translators.
Important information on al Saeedi and his location that led to his arrest was gained after former al Qaeda in Iraq leader al-Zarqawi's death.
"We continued to track him down [in the Salaheddin province] and then he moved to north of Baquba in mid-June," al-Rubaie said. "He was arrested without any harm to civilians."
The Iraqi government, "as we promised the Iraqi people," will continue fighting terrorism and "the terrorists who want to plant the seeds of fear in the heart of all Iraqis and agitate the sectarian sedition between Iraqi people," Al Rubaie said.
Coalition officials also said Sunday that one of the most wanted insurgents in the Euphrates River Valley city of Rawah was killed a day earlier by Iraqi police during a counterinsurgency operation there.
Sadam Shihab Ahmad helped coordinate insurgent operations and is suspected of involvement in the beheading of a Rawah policeman this year, a news release said.
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