Ultimately the Obama administration bears responsibility for such massacres since it has been providing military aid and intelligence to the Saudi-led coalition in its effort to reinstate President Adbrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
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Eyewitnesses said two missiles were fired at tents in the Red Sea village of Al-Wahijah, where a man affiliated to the Houthis was holding his wedding reception.
Monday’s accidental attack on a Yemeni wedding party drew references to the United States’ December 2013 drone bombing of another wedding party in Yemen, which resulted in the death of the 15 people.
Colville said that more civilians were being killed in the fighting in Yemen amid “an increasing number of air strikes targeting bridges and highways”.
Coalition ground forces have also recently entered combat in a so-far unsuccessful bid to push the Houthis from the capital, but have retaken the badly damaged port city of Aden.
Arab coalition spokesman Brigadier-General Ahmed al-Asseri said there had not been any air operations in the area for three days.
Yemen has been embroiled in fighting that pits the rebels, known as Houthis, and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh against the Saudi-backed and internationally recognized government as well as southern separatists, local militias and Sunni extremists.
Worldwide rights groups have expressed concern over mounting civilian casualties in the Yemeni conflict, in which more than 4,500 people have been killed.
It was not the case that “every explosion that happens in Yemen” was caused by the coalition, he added.
The United Nations confirmation of the deadly attack on civilians comes as Saudi Arabia had denied that its warplanes bombed the wedding ceremony. The World Food Program has determined that 10 of the 22 provinces in Yemen are confronting emergency food insecurity levels on the brink of starvation.
Mr Hadi also thanked Saudi Arabia’s King Salman for his “utter determination” in pursuing a military campaign to defeat the rebels and restore his government.
A few 21 million people, or 80% of the population, now require a few form of humanitarian assistance and nearly 1.5 million people are internally displaced.
Last week, Hadi returned from Saudi Arabia, where he has been in exile since fleeing in March.
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In late August, an air raid hit a bottled-water factory in the northern hajja province, killing 17 civilians and 14 rebels.
