It sounds like the photos synced to the phone via iTunes. To delete, sync again as described in the following from Keep your photos safely stored and up to date on all of your devices - Apple Support
If you don't want the synced photos
on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch anymore, turn off syncing in iTunes
and they'll be removed from your device. You can turn off syncing for
some of your photo albums or all of them at once.
Stop syncing some albums
- Open iTunes on your computer and connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
- Click on the device icon in iTunes.
- Click Photos.
- Choose "Selected albums" and deselect the albums or collections that you want to stop syncing.
- Click Apply.
Stop syncing all photos
- Open iTunes on your computer and connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
- Click on the device icon in iTunes.
- Click Photos.
- Deselect "Sync Photos" then click "Remove photos."
- Click Apply.
Learn how to delete photos and videos synced from iTunes when you can't access the originals.