A similar strike last week targeted a hotel where they were hiding weapons, the officials said, suggesting improved Saudi intelligence.
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Further details and circumstances that led to the wedding party being mistakenly hit were not immediately known.
At least 38 people have been killed, including eight children, and dozens more injured as a result of a suspected coalition airstrike at a wedding hall in southwest Yemen.
Human rights groups have accused both the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels of indiscriminately bombing or shelling civilians areas and urged an global inquiry into violations of worldwide law.
The incident in the village of Bani Zela, in Yemen’s Red Sea border area with Saudi Arabia, comes a day after the kingdom announced that three of its officers, including a general, had been killed along the frontier.
Women and children were among those reportedly killed in the attack, in which at least 40 people died.
To that end, they launched attacks against Houthis and their allies on Monday, and an army office told Xinhua that Houthis have been retreating from their locations in the oil-rich province of Marib as coalition attacks continue.
The United Nations says nearly 4,900 people have been killed in the past six month, including 2,200 civilians.
“This is totally false news”.
The allied Yemeni forces fired a barrage of rockets at a military base in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan region.
In late August, an air raid hit a bottled-water factory in the northern hajja province, killing 17 civilians and 14 rebels.
Press-TV, citing Yemen’s al-Masirah news channel, put the death toll at 75.
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The coalition, which seeks to restore the rule of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, regained control over the summer of the key southern port of Aden, paving the way for Hadi’s return to the country, but Houthis still hold sway in Sana, the capital.
