At least 13 schools across Paraguay — in Asunción and surrounding towns in the Central department — received shooting threats between Thursday and Friday, with nearly identical messages scrawled on bathroom walls reading "tomorrow there will be a shooting." Authorities believe the incidents may stem from a viral social media challenge, possibly originating on TikTok, with suspected authors identified as students aged 13 to 14; classes were suspended at three schools as a precaution and each case was referred to the National Police. The phenomenon has spread across the region, with a dozen or more schools in multiple Argentine provinces receiving near-identical threats, and similar reports emerging from Santiago, Chile — raising alarm less than a month after a student was killed in a school attack in San Cristóbal, Santa Fe on March 27.