Kolkata, Jun 19 (PTI) At least five persons have been arrested from New Town near Kolkata in connection with the murder of a gangster in a Patna hospital, police said on Saturday.

The accused were apprehended from a housing complex in the satellite township of the metropolis following raids conducted jointly by the Patna Police and West Bengal STF in the early hours of Saturday, they said.

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Chandan Mishra, a resident of Buxar district of Bihar, who was a murder convict and out on parole, was shot dead by gunmen inside a private hospital in Patna on Thursday morning.

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