The suspected air strike killed at least 28 people and wounded 38 others at the wedding party, witnesses said, even as United Nations peace efforts make headway. Witnesses declined to give their names for fear of reprisals.
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There was no immediate coalition comment.
The coalition has been accused of several deadly attacks that hit civilians.
YEMENI government forces and their allies, including troops from a Saudi-led coalition, have captured the last outpost of Shi’ite rebels in the key Marib province.
Coalition forces on Thursday advanced further up the Red Sea coast from the Bab al-Mandab strait and reached 50 km (30 miles) south of the port of al-Mokha, Asseri said.
Rebels say they accept UN Security Council resolution calling for ceasefire and withdrawal of fighters.
This is not the first time that a ceasefire has been negotiating, with previous attempts being short lived.
Dujarric said the United Nations has a “very high concern for the fate of civilians in Yemen, whether it’s due to aerial bombardments or other attacks”.
The fighting has killed more than 4,000 people, leaving the Arab world’s poorest country in the grip of a humanitarian crisis and on the brink of starvation.
Armed Yemeni tribesmen from the Popular Resistance Committees, supporting forces loyal to Yemen’s Saudi-backed President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, jubilate on a road after seizing control of an area in Ma’rib province, east of the capital Sana’a, on October 5, 2015.
They said the missile was sacked by an aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition that has conducted air strikes against the rebel Houthi movement since March.
Citing allegations of war crimes, the rights group Amnesty worldwide on Wednesday called for states including the and to stop arming the Saudi-led coalition, which has been bombing for over six months.
The bombing Wednesday struck the wedding as it took place in Sanabani, a southwestern Yemeni town in an area controlled by Houthi rebels, according to three local security officials.
The almost seven-month-old conflict, which pits Saudi Arabia and a coalition of allied states against anti-government rebels, has claimed thousands of civilian lives.
“We should be very careful”, he added.
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The most recent event was said to have hit at a wedding party being hosted with a tribal leader who’s recognized to support the rebels that were Houthi.
