Cbc.ca – A Sikh organization says the body of a 19-year-old employee was found in a Walmart bakery oven on Saturday by her mother, a co-worker at the Halifax 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 didn’t answer her phone during the Saturday night shift.
The mother, whose name was not released, eventually opened the walk-in bakery oven at the store and found her daughter’s burned body, it says.
The fundraiser, which had amassed more than $132,000 as of 4 p.m. local time Thursday, requests donations to bring Kaur’s father and brother from the Punjab region of India to Nova Scotia for the funeral.
“This family’s sufferings are unimaginable and indescribable. They need your support to get through this horrific time,” it says.
