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