An 11-year-old student suffered a perforated intestine after being hit by a pencil at a school in Comas: the incident reportedly occurred "as a joke" among classmates.

On Monday, Paraguay's Ministry of Justice intervened in the Martín Mendoza maximum-security prison, formerly known as Emboscada, located in the central department of Cordillera. The intervention was ordered following the escape of two inmates from the facility.

Alongside the prison intervention, authorities detained several custody guards as part of the immediate fallout from the security breach. The facility is designated as a maximum-security institution, raising the significance of the security failure and the subsequent government response.