HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (FOX Carolina) – After a Walmart employee’s body was found in an industrial walk-in oven, people across the internet are raising questions about how the tragic death could have happened.

On Oct. 19, Gursimran Kaur, 19, was found dead in the bakery oven at the Walmart store in Canada where she worked.

Kaur and her mother worked together at the store on Mumford Road. HAS GoFundMe organized by the Maritime Sikh Society for Kaur’s family, which raised nearly $200,000, said her mother became worried after not seeing the teen for an hour and finding her “burned to death” in the walk-in oven.

The Walmart store has been closed since Kaur’s death.

According to CBC Canadathe Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration issued a stop-work order at the bakery, but it later lifted the order. The agency said bakery operations can safely resume when Walmart chooses to reopen.

TikTok videos from Walmart employees demonstrating safety measures with their stores’ walk-in ovens have gone viral, raising questions about how the tragedy occurred. ChrisBreezie559 posted a video that has received more than 28 million views of the oven at her work, demonstrating that it turns on from the outside and has a door that is difficult to close.

Another TikTok video with more than 2 million views shows a Walmart worker explaining at her store, the door doesn’t latch unless forced closed and the oven door has an interior handle.

Halifax Regional Police has not publicly released new information since the initial report on Kaur’s sudden death and said the investigation may “take a significant amount of time.”

Police urged people to be mindful of sharing speculations about the tragedy on social media.

The Hindustan Times reports that Kaur and her mother are originally from Ludhiana in the Indian state of Punjab. They reportedly moved from the United Kingdom to Canada in 2021 and have worked at Walmart for two years.

Kaur’s father and brother remain in India.

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