QUETTA: Iran has partially closed a border crossing into Pakistan following a deadly mosque bombing in southeastern Iran, two Pakistani officials near the border said on Monday. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, however, said the frontier was open, AP reports.

Qamar Masood, a senior official in Balochistan, said the crossing at Taftan had been closed for trading but that foot traffic was still being allowed.

Shahbaz Ahmed, an official with the Pakistani border security force at Taftan, told AP that the border had been closed for the past three days and that no vehicles had crossed during that period.

‘Officially we have not been given any intimation or reason, but I think that blast in Zahedan could be the reason,’ Mr Masood said, referring to the mosque attack.

The foreign minister said in a statement that Pakistan’s border with Iran ‘was never closed’ and that five Iranian trucks carrying aid for internally displaced persons had crossed over on Monday.

Officials could not immediately explain the different accounts.

Calls to Iranian officials were not immediately returned on Monday.

A blast at a mosque in Zahedan on Thursday killed 25 people and injured 80 others. Three men accused of supplying explosives to the bombers were hanged on Saturday, Iran’s official news agency reported.

The bombing was claimed by a militant group with reported ties to Pakistan, Jundullah.

Pakistan’s ambassador to Iran was summoned to Iranian foreign ministry over the incident, the state news agency reported.

Mr Qureshi said the governments of Pakistan and Iran were cooperating fully to catch the bombers.