BAGHDAD: An Iraqi fighter jet accidentally dropped a bomb over a Baghdad neighborhood Monday, killing at least 12 people on the ground, Iraqi officials said.

The plane – one of several Russian-made Sukhois used by Iraq in the fight against ISIS– was returning to base when the accident happened.

Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan Ibrahim told the Associated Press that a technical failure caused the Sukhoi jet to drop the bomb, which hit a number of houses in the Iraqi capital’s eastern neighborhood of New Baghdad.

Three children and two women were among the 12 killed, a police officer at the scene and a medical official at a nearby hospital said. At least 25 people were wounded, the two officials added.

AP footage showed rescue teams in orange jumpsuits and blue helmets searching through the rubble for victims. At least one victim was seen wrapped with a blanket and being rushed to an ambulance.

Also Monday, separate attacks in and around Baghdad killed at least seven people.

The deadliest took place in Baghdad’s southern suburb of Arab Jabour when a booby-trapped house exploded, killing three members of security forces and wounding nine, a police officer said.

In another attack, two soldiers were killed and five hurt when mortar bombs hit their base in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, the officer said. And two civilians were killed and six wounded in a bomb explosion at an outdoor market in the western Ghazaliyah neighborhood.

And near Haditha in the northwest, an ISIS militant blew up an explosives-laden bulldozer, killing seven Iraqi soldiers in one of a wave of bomb attacks on the town, a police source said.

Security services said they fired on and destroyed four other vehicles believed to be rigged with explosives near the town, before they could reach their targets. 

In a statement two weeks ago, ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammad Adnani called for increased attacks during Ramadan, and specifically mentioned Haditha.

A car bomb also exploded in the town of Jubba, about 30 km southeast of Haditha, close to the Ain al-Asad air base where U.S. forces have been training Sunni fighters from Anbar to take on ISIS. A police source said seven soldiers were killed.

A security source in Anbar said security forces recaptured a bridge north of Ramadi in an attack which killed 14 ISIS fighters, while in northeast Iraq, ISIS fighters launched an attack against Kurdish peshmerga forces in the village of Murah, near Kirkuk. A Kurdish police officer said peshmerga fighters, backed by airstrikes, repelled the attack at dawn after five hours of fighting.

A statement issued in the name of ISIS said the Islamists had taken one peshmerga fighter prisoner, showing a photograph of a man with blood spattered on his shirt and face.

Kurdish forces later drove around with the bodies of dead militants splayed on the hoods of their armored vehicles.