How to remove previously imported photos

Please Help!
I have too many (5,200+) photos on my iPhone that were previously imported but it will not allow me to select all & delete.
Thanks!!!
Needing Space

I already answered your post in the other thread
"Do you have iPhoto on your iPhone?
In iPhoto do the following:  In iPhoto, tap Albums, tap Camera Roll, tap the Actions button ◦◦◦ to select the photos, tap Options button, tap Delete Photo, and tap Delete. The photos are deleted from both iPhoto and your device."
The problem is, that to select the photos you will have to do a lot of tapping.
An easy - quick and dirty - work-around would be to import again to your Mac - import to Image Capture - and then let Image Capture delete the imported photos from the iPhone, after the import.

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