The Opelika-Auburn News reports the girl's body was pulled Saturday from an in-ground container used to trap cooking grease at Bruster'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 Sadie Andrews playing with siblings when she apparently fell through a lid covering a grease pit on the ice cream parlor's property.
Harris said Sadie was found several minutes later inside the grease container, which was 6 feet (1.8 meters) deep. He said no foul play is suspected.
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