DUBAI, Sept 28: Three Asian labourers who were seriously injured in a deadly wall collapse on a construction site for a state-of-the-art new terminal at Dubai's international airport were still in hospital on Tuesday, police said.

Five workers - four Pakistani nationals and an Indian - were killed and 12 injured when part of a steel mesh wall collapsed on Monday.

"Three Asians who were seriously hurt are still in hospital," the deputy chief of police in Dubai, Jamal Mohammad Khalifa al-Mari, said, adding that most of the other people injured had been released.

The accident occurred on the site of a third terminal for Dubai International Airport, one of the busiest in the Middle East. -AFP