Gursimran Kaur was at the store with her mother

Days after a woman of Indian origin was found dead in a walk-in oven in the bakery section of a Walmart store in Canada, an employee said she believed the 19-year-old had been thrown into the oven by another person.

Gursimran Kaur was found dead in one of the appliances at a supermarket in Halifax on October 19. According to reports, she was found charred by her mother, who also worked at the store for the past two years.

Last week, police said the investigation had not yet reached a point where the “cause and manner” of death had been confirmed.

“The investigation is complex and involves multiple partner agencies. An investigation of this nature can take a significant amount of time,” Halifax Regional Police said.

However, Walmart employees suggested she had been locked in a walk-in oven and “cooked to death”.

In a video on TikTok, Chris Breezie, a co-worker, said the oven she used while working at Walmart turned on from the outside and the door handle was “really hard” to open. The mirror reported Wednesday.

Here’s a demonstration from Walmart employees showing how 19-year-old Gursimran Kaur COULD NOT have locked herself in the oven at a Nova Scotia Walmart store.
The media, the Canadian police and Walmart are doing exactly what the media, the police and Crown Plaza did to Kenneka Jenkins. #Coverpic.twitter.com/VYYOcBZL5s

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“I don’t even know if I fit in here,” Breezie, who claimed to be 5 feet 10 inches tall, said while demonstrating how the oven works at Walmart. “I should crouch down to get in.”

She noted that there was an emergency latch located inside the oven and that no task required a worker to physically enter the oven.

“I would never be here whether I cleaned or not,” she said.

Breezie claimed that to lock the oven, you have to “push” the latch “with all your might.”

“There’s no way someone could lock themselves in there,” she said in the video.

She said she believed Gursimran Kaur had been thrown into the oven by a second person.

According to The Mirror, another employee, Mary, said it “makes no sense” because the door doesn’t close by itself.

“It’s designed not to do that. You have to push it, hear the click,” she said.

“I’m not trying to theorize or form a conspiracy, it’s just hard to understand when Walmart’s bakery ovens are so safe to use,” she added.

A stop work order has been issued for the bakery and “one piece of equipment” at the Walmart store.

In a statement, Walmart Canada said the company is heartbroken and its thoughts are with the woman’s family.