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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham slammed the second Saudi-led aerial attack on a wedding that killed 51 civilians in Yemen’s Dhamar province on Wednesday.

It was the second Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a Yemeni wedding party in just over a week.

"The attacks by foreign military forces on Yemen’s residential areas and civilian targets have slaughtered thousands of the Muslim country’s defenseless people so far, and have had no results for the invading forces but destruction and killing of innocent Yemeni people", Afkham said on Thursday.

She called on the United Nations [UN] and the influential countries in the Yemeni crisis to ramp up efforts for bringing an immediate end to the Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen.

She further stressed the necessity for plans and measures to protect the lives of Yemeni civilians, particularly women and children.

On Wednesday, Saudi-led warplanes targeted a wedding party in the Yemeni town of Sanban in Dhamar province, 100km south of the capital Sana’a, killing at least 51 civilians and wounding more than 30 other people.

The raid, which was the second airstrike on a wedding party in Yemen in just over a week, hit a house where dozens of people were celebrating on Wednesday evening.

However, the spokesman for the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen, Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asiri, denied the Saudi involvement in the incident.

Over 100 civilians were also killed recently on Sept. 28 after a Saudi-led airstrike struck a wedding party in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taizz, which the United Nations [UN] said may have been the single deadliest attack since March. Some days later, the UN also confirmed that the deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit the wedding in Yemen predominantly killed women and children. 

Saudi Arabia had also denied carrying out the September wedding attack.

Yemen has been under ceaseless airstrikes on a daily basis since a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began carrying out its military aggression in Yemen on March 26.

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.