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The 19-year-old Walmart worker who was recovered dormant successful the store’s walk-in oven connected Oct. 19 successful Canada has been identified arsenic Gursimran Kaur with a GoFundMe noting she was recovered by her mother.
By Sabba Rahbar Oct 24, 2024 10:32 PMTags
Walmart Employee, 19, Found Dead successful Large Walk-In Oven astatine Store Bakery
New accusation has emerged astir the heartbreaking death of a Canadian Walmart employee.
The 19-year-old woman, who was recovered dormant successful the Halifax, Canada store's walk-in bakery oven on Oct. 19, has been identified as Gursimran Kaur, according to NBC News.
Kaur and her parent had moved to Canada from India astir 2 years ago, with parent and girl some moving astatine Walmart together, per the outlet. According to a GoFundMe acceptable up for Kaur's household by the Sikh Society, her parent was the 1 who recovered her girl successful the oven aft she had been incapable to find Kaur for implicit an hour.
"The archetypal time I saw her was the time the incidental happened," Halifax Maritime Sikh Society committee member Satnam Randhawa told NBC News. "She was truly distraught. She was truly successful large pain."
Kaur and her parent regularly attended the Sikh Society worship centers, and arsenic Randhawa told NBC News, its members are working to alert her begetter and 10-year-old brother, some of whom are inactive successful India, to Canada.
Audio of the 911 dispatch telephone elaborate the tragedy, with a dispatch serviceman telling archetypal responders successful the audio obtained by Daily Mail, "Female is locked successful an oven successful the bakery. Oven is on, unsure if the unit are capable to crook it off."
A archetypal responder connected the country noted successful the audio that they unopen disconnected powerfulness to the oven, and that "the idiosyncratic was retired of the oven upon arrival."
E! News has reached retired to the Nova Scotia Emergency Management office for remark regarding the 911 telephone but has not years back.
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The Halifax Regional Police told E! News successful an Oct. 24 connection that their investigators "are conducting a thorough probe into this incident."
"The probe into the origin and mode of decease continues," they explained, "and we person nary caller accusation to stock with the nationalist astatine this time."
A spokesperson for Walmart had antecedently confirmed to E! News connected Oct. 23 that the Halifax store was temporarily closed until further announcement successful bid to accommodate the investigation.
"We are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our subordinate and their family," the spokesperson said successful their statement. "Our absorption remains connected taking attraction of our associates and making definite they person the enactment they need. As constabulary person stated, this is simply a precise analyzable substance and the probe is ongoing."
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