Three brothers preparing to get married were among at least 13 people killed yesterday in a rocket attack on a village in Yemen and villagers said the strike was probably carried out by Saudi-led coalition jets.

The incident, if confirmed, would be the third attack in the last two weeks to kill civilians and recalls an air strike that killed more than 130 people at a Yemeni wedding party on September 28.

The previous attacks have drawn international criticism of the Saudi-led coalition that is battling Iran-backed Houthis in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation in order to restore Yemen’s ousted President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Residents in the town of Sanban said the three brothers had been waiting for their brides’ party to arrive when the missile hit their house. At least 10 other people were killed, the residents said. The brides were unharmed. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

A coalition spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment, but the Arab alliance says it does not target civilians. The Houthi-run Saba news agency reported that a coalition air raid in Sanban had killed or wounded dozens of people at a wedding celebration and that the toll might exceed 30. On Wednesday, rights group Amnesty International urged countries including the United States and Britain to stop arming the Saudi-led coalition.

In a report, Amnesty said there was an urgent need for an independent investigation of violations.

The Arab coalition began its air strikes against the Houthis and their allies, forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, in late March after a push from their northern stronghold towards the southern port of Aden.

The Saudi-led coalition, which says the Houthis are stooges of Iran, stepped up air strikes on Yemen’s capital Sanaa and other Houthi-held areas.

In other violence in Yemen on Thursday, a prominent judge and a senior army officer were shot dead by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles in two separate incidents, security sources said.