A teacher of the Delhi Public School in Patna was on Wednesday gunned down by unidentified assailants at Saidpur locality, police said.

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The assailants pumped five bullets into Praveen Kumar (23) from close range killing him on the spot and escaped. The incident occurred when Kumar was on his way to catch the school bus. The reason behind the killing was not immediately known.