It was not clear who was behind the attack but a Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out air raids against Houthi rebels.
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The hit on the wedding comes just a day after Saudi-led coalition helicopters reportedly killed more than 30 people, mainly civilians, in a northern Yemeni village.
“The attacks by foreign military forces on Yemen’s residential areas and civilian targets have slaughtered thousands of the Muslim country’s defenseless people so far, and have had no results for the invading forces but destruction and killing of innocent Yemeni people”, Marziyeh Afkham said on Thursday.
The Airstrikes hit a home on Wednesday in the Sanban region of Dhamar state, which is held by Shi’ite Houthi rebels being targeted by the months-long union bombing campaign. The incident, if confirmed, would be the third attack in the last two weeks that has killed civilians, recalling an airstrike that killed more than 130 people at a Yemeni wedding party on September 28.
It was the second time in little over a week that the coalition had denied allegations of bombing a wedding party.
In its report published on Wednesday, the organization demanded an investigation into 13 airstrikes conducted by the coalition between May and July in Yemen which killed a few 100 civilians including 59 children.
Last month, President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s government backed away from UN-sponsored talks that were to be held in Oman, insisting the rebels first withdraw from territory they have seized.
The United Nations has welcomed a pledge by Yemen’s Houthis Thursday to accept the terms of a ceasefire deal brokered by the worldwide body, calling it “an important step” towards a peace settlement in the country’s ongoing war.
But as the forces loyal to Houthi-backed presidential pretender Ali Abdullah Saleh possess no aircraft, suspicion fell on Saudi Arabia and its allies.
Saleh’s General People’s Congress (GPC) party also accepted the plan and reiterated in a statement on Tuesday its “fast position on ending hostilities and … on a peaceful solution to Yemen’s crisis”.
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On Wednesday, the rights group Amnesty worldwide said the Saudi-led coalition is guilty of war crimes and urged countries to stop supplying arms to the coalition. In May, soon after, the group claimed an attack on a Houthi mosque in Sana’a that wounded 13.
