Bomb attacks against the Iraqi army in the country’s north killed 12 people on Monday, most of them soldiers, AFP quoted officers and doctors as saying.

Bomb attacks against the Iraqi Army in the country's north killed 12 people on Monday, most of them soldiers, AFP quoted officers and doctors as saying.

A suicide car bomber attacked an army patrol in the city of Mosul, killing 12 people and wounding 16, while a roadside bomb wounded a soldier and a civilian near the city.

The attacks came after gunmen assaulted two prisons in a bid to free inmates on Sunday night, killing 12 members of the security forces in clashes that raged all night.

Eighteen people were killed in other violence on Sunday.