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<p>AUBURN, Ala. (AP) &#8212; Authorities say a 3-year-old girl is dead after she fell into a grease pit at an Alabama ice cream shop and drowned.</p><p>The Opelika-Auburn News reports the girl&#8217;s body was pulled Saturday from an in-ground container used to trap cooking grease at Brewster&#8217;s Real Ice Cream in Auburn.</p><p>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&#8217;s property.</p><p>Harris said 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. The girl&#8217;s name was not immediately released.</p><style>
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Girl, 3, drowns in grease pit at Alabama ice cream shop