A mysterious death once occurred in Canada: a 19-year-old employee at a Walmart supermarket was roasted alive in a giant oven. The heartbroken mother recently recalled discovering her daughter’s body, describing the scene as extremely horrifying and saying it remains unbearable for the family.
According to the Daily Mail, the victim, Gursimran, and her mother, Mandip Kaur, both worked at the same Walmart branch in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
On October 19, 2024, while Mandip was on duty at the store’s bakery, she was unable to reach her daughter, who was also working that day, and began looking for her everywhere.
In an interview with the media this week, Mandip said that she saw a dark brown, tar-like liquid seeping out of a commercial oven.
“I opened the (oven) door, and she was there. I completely lost control at that moment. I fell to my knees and stayed by her side for five to ten minutes, completely unaware of what was happening.”
Reports indicate that the liquid was actually coming from the victim’s body. The deceased was lying beside the baking rack, burned beyond recognition.
After the accident, the branch closed for four months, and when it reopened, the bakery had been relocated. The original large oven was replaced with a smaller one that employees cannot enter.
The Halifax Police initially investigated the incident as a suspected homicide, but a month later stated that they found nothing suspicious.
Last month, the Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration also completed its investigation and determined that there were no violations of workplace safety regulations. The oven was operating normally, and Walmart was deemed blameless in the incident.
However, the conclusions of the police and labor department investigations have sparked speculation, with some questioning whether the victim had taken her own life.
Mandip firmly denies this. She says her daughter was cheerful, loved her family, was an excellent student, and planned to attend university to study medicine and become a doctor.
She recalled that the night before her daughter passed, the family had gathered with friends and relatives to celebrate.
After her daughter’s death, the family received parcels the daughter had ordered for herself before she died, further convincing Mandip that her daughter had no intention of taking her own life.
She said: “After an 18-month investigation, they still can’t find the truth, no conclusive evidence, no clear conclusion—they don’t know what happened. We can’t accept this.”