Father, brother of Halifax Walmart worker found dead in oven coming to Canada

The enactment helping the household of a young worker who was recovered dormant successful a Halifax Walmart store says her relatives are headed to Canada.

The Maritime Sikh Society confirmed Gursimran Kaur’s begetter has received an exigency visa connected compassionate grounds. He and Kaur’s member are making arrangements to travel to Nova Scotia to beryllium by her mother’s side.

“We are providing her each the intelligence support,” said the society’s secretary, Balbir Singh.

“It’s continuously, either the scientist oregon the psychiatrist visiting her.”

According to the society, it was Kaur’s parent who discovered the 19-year-old successful the oven astatine the Mumford Road large container store connected Oct. 19.

Both parent and girl are a portion of the Sikh assemblage and had been moving astatine the Walmart store for astir 2 years. The nine said the brace moved to Canada astir 3 years agone and are primitively from India.

The lawsuit has made headlines crossed Canada and successful India — and Singh said the nine has been receiving messages from astir the world.

The GoFundMe fundraiser acceptable up by the nine raised $190,000 for the family.

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Singh besides confirmed Walmart has sent fiscal assistance to the household arsenic well.

‘They privation transparency’

Rumours astir the lawsuit proceed to swirl, particularly connected societal media, and Singh called it hurtful.

He said helium and the household anticipation much updates volition go disposable from the constabulary investigation.

“They privation transparency. They privation them to travel retired with regular updates truthful radical who are connected with the case, they volition cognize what’s going on,” helium said.

Halifax Regional Police person said the probe is ongoing and “complex.”

Meanwhile, the province’s section of labour lifted a stop-work bid connected Monday, that was issued connected the store’s bakery section and a portion of equipment.

The store remains unopen down, but Walmart has been paying its employees who were scheduled to enactment during the closure.