AT LEAST 30 people were killed when the Saudi-led coalition bombed a wedding, Yemeni officials said yesterday.

Wednesday’s attack came after the UN announced that the rebel Anasarullah movement — commonly known as the Houthis — had agreed to a ceasefire.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the group had signed up to a seven-point peace plan which includes abiding by security council resolution 2216, which requires the Houthis to withdraw from all areas they occupy — including the capital Sanaa — and to lay down their arms.

In return, the movement will be given a role in government and become a recognised political party.

The agreement was confirmed by Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abd al-Salam, according to Yemen’s Saba Net news agency.

Mr Salam also called on UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon and the UN security council to back Yemen’s peace process.

The air raid took place in the town of Sanabani in Dhamar province, an area controlled by the Houthi rebels. The host of the wedding was a local tribal leader alleged to be an Ansarullah supporter.

The three local officials said that hospitals had been overwhelmed with the wounded.

There was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia’s military coalition, which last week denied that it was responsible for the bombing of another wedding on September 28, killing more than 130 people.

But as the forces loyal to Houthi-backed presidential pretender Ali Abdullah Saleh possess no aircraft, suspicion fell on Saudi Arabia and its allies.

“Not every explosion that takes place in Yemen is an air strike — it could be a missile, car bomb or weapons cache,” coalition spokesman Ahmed Asseri claimed.

Elsewhere, forces loyal to exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi claimed to have captured the town of Sirwah, the Houthis’ last outpost in the central Marib province, east of Sanaa.

According to medical officials, 70 Houthis and more than 50 Hadis were killed in three days of fighting over the town.

Witnesses there said that a few Houthi pockets still remained in Sirwah.

Ansarullah in turn claimed to have hit a coalition warship in Bab al-Mandab Strait, the strategic southern entrance to the Red Sea and the gateway to the Suez Canal.