Toddler drowns in grease pit

Auburn, Ala. — An accident at an ice cream shop leaves a 3-year-old girl dead.

She fell into a grease pit and drowned.

The Opelika-Auburn News reports the girl's body was pulled Saturday from an in-ground container used to trap cooking grease at Brewster's Real Ice Cream in Auburn.

Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said in a news release the death appears to be an accidental drowning.

He said video evidence from the scene showed the girl playing with siblings when she apparently fell through a lid covering a grease pit on the ice cream parlor's property.

Harris said the girl was found several minutes later inside the grease container, which was 6 feet deep.

He said no foul play is suspected.

The girl's name was not immediately released.