Woman who died in bakery oven at Halifax Walmart found by her mother, organization says

“A young beauteous miss who came to Canada with large dreams” is however a 19-year-old Halifax Walmart worker is being remembered, arsenic her friends and household conflict with the devastating details of her death.

The Maritime Sikh Society has identified the unfortunate of past Saturday’s incidental arsenic Gursimran Kaur, with the support of her mother.

Both parent and girl had been moving astatine the Walmart store connected Mumford Road successful the city’s westbound extremity for astir 2 years.

It was her mother, according to the society, who recovered Kaur wrong the store’s bakery department. Halifax Regional Police person confirmed the victim’s assemblage was recovered successful a walk-in oven.

“The assemblage has been shocked by the full incidental and they consciousness for it and of people the contiguous household is upset with the shock, they’re successful a benignant of a trauma,” said Harjit Seyan, the society’s president.

“We are really, truly upset astir the full happening of people and truly atrocious to perceive specified a tragic event.”

According to the Maritime Sikh Society, Kaur and her parent had moved to Canada wrong the past 3 years and were primitively from India. Her begetter and member are inactive surviving successful that country.

“The Maritime Sikh Society has besides arranged for intelligence counseling for the family, for the radical who are suffering and each that. So we are truly with the household — talking to them,” said Sevan.

The nine has besides acceptable up a GoFundMe campaign to rise wealth for ceremonial expenses, and to bring household members present for past rites. It surpassed its $50,000 extremity successful 10 hours, and arsenic of 11:30 a.m. Thursday has raised astir $84,000.

Investigation ongoing, store remains closed

The probe into Kaur’s decease continues, and involves police, the province’s labour section and the aesculapian examiner’s office.

First responders were called to the store astatine astir 9:30 p.m. past Saturday for a study of a “sudden death.” The store was evacuated and has remained closed since.

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Halifax Regional Police confirmed a fewer days aboriginal the worker had been recovered successful a walk-in oven.

A spokeswoman for the province’s labour section said a stop-work bid had been issued for the bakery and “one portion of equipment” astatine the Walmart store.

Walk-in ovens, besides referred to arsenic furniture oregon batch ovens, let for curing, drying oregon baking successful batches utilizing wheeled racks oregon carts. They are often recovered successful large-volume bakeries successful places specified arsenic supermarkets and big-box stores.

In a statement, Walmart Canada said the institution is heartbroken and their thoughts are with the woman’s family. They directed each further questions to police, and added that 24/7 virtual attraction and grief counselling was being made disposable to staff.

The institution besides confirmed to Global News that employees volition continue to beryllium paid for shifts during the store’s closure successful Halifax, but volition see “alternate enactment arrangements” if the store has to beryllium closed for a “longer-than-anticipated play of time.”

— with files from The Canadian Press and Global News’ Gabby Rodrigues