The organization helping the family of a young employee who was found dead in a Halifax Walmart store says her relatives are headed to Canada.
The Maritime Sikh Society confirmed Gursimran Kaur’s father has received an emergency visa on compassionate grounds. He and Kaur’s brother are making arrangements to come to Nova Scotia to be by her mother’s side.
“We are providing her all the psychological support,” said the society’s secretary, Balbir Singh.
“It’s continuously, either the psychologist or the psychiatrist visiting her.”
According to the society, it was Kaur’s mother who discovered the 19-year-old in the oven at the Mumford Road big box store on Oct. 19.
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Both mother and daughter are a part of the Sikh community and had been working at the Walmart store for about two years. The society said the pair moved to Canada about three years ago and are originally from India.
The case has made headlines across Canada and in India — and …