Indian Origin Woman 'baked to death,' Claim Walmart workers
By : DC Web Desk
Update: 2024-11-01 11:49 GMT
Several days after an Indian-origin woman was found dead in a walk-in oven in the bakery section of a Walmart in Canada, an employee said that the 19-year-old might have been forced into the oven by someone else.
Gursimran Kaur was found dead on October 19 inside one of the store’s appliances in Halifax. According to reports, her mother, who has worked at the store for two years, found her daughter’s charred body.
Last week, police stated that the investigation has not yet confirmed the "cause and manner" of death.
The Halifax Regional Police said, "The investigation is complex and involves several partner agencies. An investigation of this nature may take a significant amount of time."
Meanwhile, Walmart employees have speculated that she was locked inside a walk-in oven and "baked to death."
According to The Mirror, a co-worker Chris Breezie shared a TikTok video where she said that the oven Gursimran Kaur used at Walmart could be turned on from the outside and had a door handle that was "really hard" to open.
While demonstrating how the oven at Walmart works in the video, Breezie who is 5 foot 1, said, "I don't even know if I would fit in here. I would have to crouch down to get in."
She also said that the oven had an emergency latch inside and mentioned that no tasks required workers to physically enter the oven.
"I would never be in here, whether I'm cleaning it or not," she added.
Breezie claimed that to lock the oven, one would need to push the latch with all their strength.
"There is no way possible somebody could lock themselves in there," she added in the video.
She expressed her belief that Gursimran Kaur was forced into the oven by another person.
Another employee, Mary, told The Mirror that it "doesn't make any sense" since the door does not close on its own.
"It's designed not to do that. You have to push it, hear the click," Mary said.
"I'm not trying to theorize or form a conspiracy, it's just hard to wrap my head around it when Walmart's bakery ovens are so safe to use," she added.
A stop-work order has been issued for the bakery and for "one piece of equipment" at the Walmart store.
In a statement, Walmart Canada expressed heartbreak over the incident and shared that their thoughts are with the woman's family.