The Halifax Walmart where the incident happened. (Google Street View)
A Sikh organization says the body of a 19-year-old employee who died in a Halifax Walmart bakery oven Saturday was discovered by her mother — a co-worker at the store.
The Maritime Sikh Society on Thursday identified the victim as Gursimran Kaur, a Sikh woman originally from India. She was “a young beautiful girl who came to Canada with big dreams,” says an online fundraising page organized by the society.
Kaur had immigrated to Canada with her mother about two years ago. Balbir Singh, secretary of the society, said Kaur’s mother is still suffering from shock but she authorized the release of information about her daughter for the GoFundMe page.
The fundraising drive says the mother became frantic after her daughter stopped answering her phone during the Saturday night shift. The mother, whose name was not released, eventually opened the …