Girl drowns in grease pit at Alabama ice cream shop
AUBURN, Ala. -- Authorities say a 3-year-old girl is dead after she fell into a grease pit at an Alabama ice cream shop 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.
CBS affiliate WIAT reports that CPR was performed on the scene before the girl was rushed to East Alabama Medical Center. Harris says she was pronounced dead around 1:30 p.m.
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.
