A three-year-old boy drowned after falling through a manhole and into an underground tank of used cooking oil.
Jordy Marmolejo fell into the tank used to store waste oil as he played behind his father’s food market in Vineland, New Jersey.
The manhole cover had been removed as employees prepared to work on the pit.
Employees at the store saw Jordy fall into the five foot deep pit but could not find him in the oil.
After 15 minutes firemen using poles found Jordy and pulled him from the tank but he was in cardiac arrest and died in hospital.
The tank was filled with ‘brown greasy fluid’ including kitchen waste and used cooking oil.
