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A 3-year-old child died Saturday in what authorities are calling an accidental drowning in a grease pit at an ice cream shop in Auburn.

Auburn Police received a 911 call about a missing child at Bruster's Real Ice Cream on East University Drive around 1 p.m. Saturday and when they got to the scene discovered CPR being performed on the girl, according to a news release from Lee County Coroner Bill Harris.

The child was rushed to East Alabama Medical Center where she was pronounced dead in the emergency room, Harris said.

Video evidence from the scene showed the girl was playing with two of her siblings when she apparently fell through a lid covering one of the grease pits on the property, Harris said. She had been missing about 5-10 minutes when she was found unresponsive in the grease trap and both family and employees of Bruster's performed CPR.

The death investigation indicates the girl drowned in the sludge that was in the 6-foot-deep in-ground container, Harris said. No foul play is suspected.

"Please keep this family in your prayers as they suffer through this tragedy," Harris said.

Bruster's remained closed on Saturday as a sign read "Closed for today, sorry for the inconvenience."