CAIRO — A Saudi-led coalition on Saturday blamed ‘‘wrong information’’ for the bombing last weekend of a packed funeral hall in the rebel-held Yemeni capital that killed at least 140 people and wounded some 600.

The coalition’s Joint Incidents Assessment Team said a ‘‘party’’ affiliated with Yemen’s General Chief of Staff headquarters had provided intelligence that the hall in Sana was filled with leaders of the Shi’ite Houthi rebels, whom the coalition has been targeting since March 2015, when it intervened in Yemen’s civil war in support of the internationally recognized government.

The unidentified party insisted the site was ‘‘a legitimate military target,’’ the English-language statement said. The Air Operation Center in Yemen then directed a ‘‘close air support mission’’ to target the site without approval from the coalition’s command.

The investigators called on the coalition to immediately review the rules of engagement and recommended that compensation be offered to the victims’ families.

The assessment team “has found that because of noncompliance with coalition rules of engagement and procedures, and the issuing of incorrect information, a coalition aircraft wrongly targeted the location,’’ it said.

The coalition, which had initially denied any responsibility, said it accepts the results of the investigation and has started to implement the recommended changes.

‘‘The coalition command expresses its regret at this unintentional incident and the ensuing pain for victims’ families,’’ it said in a statement.

The Yemeni government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has yet to publicly comment on the Oct. 8 bombing. Yemen’s chief of staff is Major General Mohammed Ali al-Maqdishi, a close ally of the powerful army general Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, now serving as vice president. Ahmar is also a top ally of Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood, which is fighting the Houthis alongside government troops.

In another development Saturday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said rebels had released two US citizens as part of an arrangement that including airlifts of Yemenis wounded in the funeral attack, the Associated Press reported. Kerry did not identify the Americans.

The Americans were flown to Oman on Saturday night after Omani officials mediated their release, Reuters cited the Omani state media as reporting. It was unclear how long the Americans had been held.

Mansour Ahmed Mansour, the spokesman for the investigators of the bombing, said by phone from Riyadh that ‘‘certain individuals’’ in the operations center had insisted on the strike.

‘‘If the coalition was notified and given a chance to review the no-target list, it would have found out that the hall is among the facilities that enjoy protection from airstrikes,’’ he said. But, he added, ‘‘there was very, very strong insistence to carry out the attack within a specific frame of time and quickly, which gave no window for the coalition to review the orders.’’

‘‘The people who were inside the air operation center are the ones we hold responsible,’’ he said.

The US-backed coalition, which views the Houthis as an Iranian proxy, has come under mounting pressure to investigate the bombing. Human Rights Watch said Thursday that the bombing constitutes an apparent war crime and that remnants of a US-made bomb were found at the scene.

Along with arms, the United States provides the coalition with logistical support and midair refueling. The White House has said it will immediately review its assistance to the Saudi-led coalition, explaining the assistance was not a ‘‘blank check.’’

Over the past year, coalition warplanes have bombed busy markets, weddings, schools, and hospitals, killing hundreds of people.

The deadly airstrikes on the funeral triggered a wave of counterattacks against US and Saudi targets.

A US Navy destroyer deployed in international waters in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen has come under attack in recent days, including Saturday, from areas under Houthi control. In response, the United States destroyed three radar installations in Houthi-controlled ports near the Bab al-Mandab strait on Thursday, in the first direct US involvement in Yemen’s war.

The Houthis denied firing at the destroyer and accused the United States of using the attack as a justification to become more directly involved in the civil war.

Houthis and allied army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have also fired rockets and missiles at Saudi military installations and air bases across the Yemeni-Saudi border.

On the diplomatic and political level, the bombing intensified pressure on the Saudi-led coalition. The coalition had forced the closure of Sana international airport for the past two months, after the collapse of peace talks between rival parties in Kuwait.

However, a Houthi official said Saturday that the coalition has agreed to open the airport to allow a team of peace negotiators sent by Houthis and allies from Saleh’s onetime ruling party to return to Yemen. The negotiators have been stuck in Oman for two months.