0:47 / 1:59 Employee dead in oven at Halifax Walmart found by her mother, Sikh society says

“A young, beautiful girl who came to Canada with big dreams,” is how a 19-year-old Halifax Walmart employee is being remembered, as her friends and family struggle with the devastating details of her death.

The Maritime Sikh Society has identified the victim of last Saturday night’s incident as Gursimran Kaur, with the permission of her mother. Both mother and daughter are part of the Sikh community and had been working at the Walmart store on Mumford Road for about two years.

It was her mother, according to the society, who found Kaur inside the store’s bakery department while the store was still open. Halifax Regional Police have confirmed the victim’s body was found in a walk-in oven.