Washington: US State Department’s Rewards for Justice Programme has announced a $10 million reward on the mastermind of the Kabul airport bomb blast in 2021caused to the death of 183 people including 13 American personnel.

US State Department’s Rewards for Justice Programme announced to know the whereabouts of Sanaullah Ghafari, leader of the Islamic State’s Khorasan unit (IS-K). According to the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice Programme on Monday, that Ghafari, also known as Shahab al-Muhajir, was appointed in June 2020 by the IS’ core leadership to be the leader of IS-K, a US designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. An IS communiqué announcing his appointment described al-Muhajir as an experienced military leader and one of IS-K’s ‘urban lions’ in Kabul who has been involved in guerrilla operations and the planning of suicide and complex attacks.

The reward announcement comes after the Department of Defense (DOD) on February 3^rd said that the attack was carried out by using a single explosive device. The victims comprised 170 Afghan civilians and among the American personnel were 11 Marines, a soldier and a sailor. Forty five others were also injured.

He was born in 1994 in Afghanistan; he is responsible for approving all IS-K operations throughout Afghanistan and arranging funding to conduct operations, said the Department.