The Nangarhar province, which was targeted borders Pakistan's tribal area, a porous border that extremists have exploited in eluding coalition forces.
Speaking to IANS, a top intelligence officer in Kasargode said that around midnight April 13 officials received information that said Mohammed was killed in the US military assault.
US President Donald Trump had earlier called the mission "very, very successful".
America's largest non-nuclear bomb, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, known as the Mother of All Bombs, has proved its worth, as it has been reported to kill a large number of ISIS terrorists.
"As a result of the bombing, key Daesh (IS) hideouts and a deep tunnel complex were destroyed and 36 IS fighters were killed", the defence ministry said in a statement.
"The number of Daesh fighters killed in the U.S. bomb in Achin district jumped to 94, including four commanders", Nangarhar provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogiani told CNN, using an alternative name for ISIS. The bomb also destroyed three underground tunnels, weapons and ammunition.
An Afghan resident living about a mile from where the bomb fell told CNN he heard an "extremely loud boom that smashed the windows of our house".
Afghan officials said 36 militants were killed in the strike. "We thought it had happened right in front of our house", he said.
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The massive bomb was dropped after fighting intensified over the past week and US-backed ground forces struggled to advance on the area.
The strike was created to minimise the risk to Afghan and US forces conducting clearing operations in the area while maximising the destruction of IS fighters and facilities, said the US Forces-Afghanistan, which is part of NATO-led Resolute Support.
One man, who did not want to give his name for fear of ISIS retaliation, said there were no civilians left in the area the group controlled.
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Saturday criticized both the Afghan and US governments for the attack in Nangarhar. The rocky landscape is dotted with caves and defensive tunnels, making it easy to hold and hard to attack, according to CNN International's diplomatic editor Nic Robertson, who has previously reported from the Afghan mountains.
The province, with Jalalabad city as its capital, 120 km east of Kabul, has been the scene of heavy clashes between security forces, Taliban militants and IS fighters over the past years.
While the war in Afghanistan has largely slipped from public consciousness in the United States, replaced by the conflict in Syria and ongoing tensions over North Korea, there are still around 8,400 U.S. troops in the country engaged in counter terrorism operations.
The Department of Defense released the video Friday, less than a day after it dropped the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) atop the Achin district of Nangarhar province, which is close to the Afghan-Pakistan border.
"I have witnessed a countless number of explosions and bombings in the last 30 years of war in Afghanistan, but this one was more powerful than any other bomb as far as I remember".
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