Originally published on E! Online
New information has emerged about the heartbreaking death of a Canadian Walmart employee.
The 19-year-old woman found dead in the store’s walk-in bakery oven in Halifax, Canada, on October 19 has been identified as Gursimran Kauraccording to NBC News.
Kaur and her mother had moved to Canada from India about two years ago, while mother and daughter both worked together at Walmart, the outlet said. According to a GoFundMe set up by the Sikh Society for Kaur’s family, her mother was the one who found her daughter in the oven after being unable to locate Kaur for more than an hour.
“The first day I saw her was the day the incident happened,” board member of the Halifax Maritime Sikh Society Satnam Randhawa told NBC News. “She was really desperate. She was really in a lot of pain.”
Kaur and her mother regularly visited the Sikh Society’s worship centers, and as Randhawa told NBC News, members are working to fly her father and 10-year-old brother, both still in India, to Canada.
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The audio of the 911 call provided detailed information about the tragedy, with a dispatcher telling first responders in the audio obtained by Daily mail“Woman is locked in an oven in the bakery. Oven is on, not sure if staff can turn it off.”
A first responder on scene noted in the audio that they had turned off the power to the oven and that “the individual was out of the oven upon arrival.”
E! News reached out to the Nova Scotia Emergency Management office for comment on the 911 call but did not hear back.
Halifax Regional Police told E! News in an Oct. 24 statement that their investigators are “conducting a thorough investigation into this incident.”
“The investigation into the cause and manner of death continues,” they explained, “and we have no new information to share with the public at this time.”
A Walmart spokesperson previously told E! News on Oct. 23 that the Halifax store was temporarily closed until further notice to accommodate the investigation.
“We are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our employee and their family,” the spokesperson said in their statement. “Our focus remains on looking after our employees and ensuring they have the support they need. As the police have stated, this is a very complex case and the investigation is ongoing.”
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