3-year-old girl drowns in grease pit

                                              
A three-year-old girl is dead after she fell into a grease pit at an Alabama ice cream shop and drowned.

Sadie Grace Andrews, the third-youngest of six siblings, 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 that 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.

ABC NEWS reports Harris as saying that the girl was found several minutes later inside the grease container, which was 6 feet (1.8 meters) deep.

He said no foul play is suspected.