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Forensic personnel collect evidence at a crime scene in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. EFE/File

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Mar 29 (EFE).- Seven people were fatally shot early Friday at a bar in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua, authorities said.

The rifle-toting assailant entered the Mogavi bar in the wee hours and began shooting indiscriminately, a source in the Chihuahua police department told Efe.

Four male patrons and three female employees were killed and two other people were wounded, the source said.

The shooter fled the scene and remains at large. Authorities said they have no information on a motive for the bloodbath.

The Mogavi is located in the city center, not far from municipal police headquarters.

Chihuahua state, which borders Texas, is one of the most violent regions in Mexico, thanks largely to a brutal territorial struggle between rival drug cartels.