This neat-looking building had nine flats costing between Rs 7 lakh and Rs 11 lakh each. The size of each flat varied from 125 to 165 sq yards. In the building's basement was a computer centre and the first floor had shops. On inspection after the collapse, experts found the building didn't have any plinth under the beams. The plaster was mud-like in quality, they say.

Dead: 33

The Swaminarayan School building in the city's Maninagar area fell, crushing to death 33 students of secondary and higher secondary level. The building was constructed in just four months so the school could start in the ongoing academic session. In the process the builder cut down on the curing time when the building is watered-a process that affects the strength of the cement used.

Dead: 33

The 10-storey Mansi Complex was one of the biggest residential-cum-commercial complexes on Premchandnagar road in Ahmedabad's Satellite area. It had 80 two-bedroom and three-bedroom flats with a shopping complex on the ground floor. Of these, a vertical row of 29 flats fell that day. Police say that illegal construction on the building's top floor-reportedly a swimming pool-caused it to collapse.

Dead: 65

This 10-storey building offered 100-sq yard, two-bedroom flats at just Rs 5 lakh. Shikhar had four towers, each with 40 flats. Of these, one tower collapsed. Nearly half of the flats were occupied at the time. The building was built less than a year ago. On inspection, structural engineering expert Anandswaroop Arya found major technical faults in the way the pillar had been raised.