Days after an Indian-origin woman was found dead inside a walk-in oven in the bakery department of a Walmart store in Canada, an employee has said she believes the 19-year-old woman was buried in the oven by another person. Had thrown away.
Gursimran Kaur was found dead in an appliance superstore in Halifax on 19 October. According to reports, she was found burnt by her mother, who worked at the store for the last two years.
Last week, police said the investigation had not yet reached the point where the “cause and manner” of death could be confirmed.
Halifax Regional Police said, “The investigation is complex and involves multiple partner agencies. An investigation of this nature can take a significant amount of time.”
However, Walmart employees have suggested that she was locked in a walk-in oven and “baked to death”.
In a video on TikTok, Chris Breezy, a co-worker, said the oven she used while working at Walmart would turn on from the outside and open the door handle “really… I was difficult.
Here’s a demonstration by Walmart employees showing how 19-year-old Gursimran Kaur couldn’t stop herself from locking herself in the oven at a Nova Scotia Walmart store.
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“I don’t even know if I’ll fit in here,” Breezy, who claimed she is 5 feet 1 inch tall, said while demonstrating how the oven works at Walmart. “I have to bend to get in.”
She reported that there was an emergency latch inside the oven and there were no tasks that required an employee to physically enter the oven.
“Whether I’m cleaning it or not, I’ll never come back here,” she said.
Breezy claimed that to lock the oven, you have to “push” the latch “with all your might.”
“There’s no way anyone could lock themselves in there,” he said in the video.
He said he believed Kaur had been thrown into the oven by another person.
According to The Mirror, another employee, Mary, said it “doesn’t make any sense” because the door doesn’t close automatically.
“It’s designed not to do that. You have to push it, hear the click,” he said.
“I’m not trying to theorize or create a conspiracy, it’s just hard to care when Walmart’s bakery ovens are so safe to use,” she said.
A stop work order has been issued for a bakery and “a piece of equipment” at a Walmart store.
Walmart Canada said in a statement that the company is saddened and its thoughts are with the woman’s family.
