A tragic incident unfolded in Hillsborough, New Jersey, as a mother faces murder charges following the discovery of her two young sons, aged five and seven, dead in their residence.

Authorities arrested 35-year-old Priyatharsini Natarajan after her husband contacted the police on Tuesday evening, around 6:45 p.m. He made the call from their apartment on Shell Court, reporting the unconscious state of their children and implying that his wife was involved in the incident.

When Hillsborough Township Police arrived at the scene, they encountered the couple and found the lifeless bodies of the two children in a bedroom.

Emergency medical teams attempted resuscitation efforts but were unable to revive the boys, who were declared dead at the location. The names of the children have not been made public at this time.

Medics attempted life-saving measures on the children, but it was too late and they were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities have not yet been released. 

Natarajan was arrested and taken to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. 

She was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, and one count of third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. 

Prosecutors would not confirm what type of weapon was recovered from the scene. 

New Jersey mother Priyatharsini Natarajan, 35, (pictured above) has been charged with murder after her two little boys, aged five and seven, were found dead in their family home

Natarajan was arrested after her husband called police to their apartment on Shell Court, Hillsborough at around 6.45pm Tuesday. The property is shown above 

Natarajan appeared stony-faced in her mugshot, staring straight ahead with little expression. 

Red marks and grooves could be seen on her neck, suggesting some sort of injury. 

The Daily Mail has contacted Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office and Hillsborough Township Police Department for more information on the case. 

Anyone with information has been asked to call the prosecutor’s office at (908) 231-7100 or police at (908) 369-4323 or via the STOPit app.

It comes as another mom who is accused of killing her three children is due to appear in court in Massachusetts this month. 

Lindsay Clancy, 35, jumped out of a second-story window in January 2023 after allegedly murdering Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan.

Ahead of trial, her defense attorney Kevin Reddington requested she be given an ambulance to help get to court because the fall left her wheelchair-bound.

Clancy allegedly strangled her children in the basement of her $750,000 Duxbury home in 2023. 

The mom-of-three was paralyzed after jumping from a two-story window following the murder of her three children – Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan – in January 2023

Lindsay Clancy, 35, (pictured in court on Wednesday) requested the use of an emergency vehicle to get to and from court during a Wednesday hearing as she is wheelchair after being paralyzed 

Her husband returned home to find Clancy with slashes to her neck and wrists in an effort to take her own life.

Reddington will reportedly pursue an insanity defense for Clancy, arguing she was suffering from postpartum depression at the time she allegedly strangled the children.

‘This is not a situation that was planned by any means,’ he previously said. ‘This was a situation that was clearly the product of mental illness.’

But the prosecution countered that Clancy had been evaluated by mental health professionals before and was told she did not have post-partum depression.

They claimed Clancy had been researching ways to kill on her cellphone in the days leading up to the murders, and have suggested her suicide attempt was staged.

Clancy has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.