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Canada: Sikh woman found dead inside walk-in oven

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Ottawa: A Sikh teenager woman was found dead inside a walk-in oven of a bakery in Canada's Halifax city, police said.

The police is trying to ascertain the identity of the deceased. She was employed at the store.

Investigation on

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Police has said that investigation has not yet reached a point where the cause and manner of death have been confirmed. 

Officers were called to the store on Mumford Road at around 9:30 pm on Saturday, where they found the woman dead, The Globe and Mail newspaper reported, citing the police.  

Victim was from India 

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Balbir Singh, the secretary of the Maritime Sikh Society, said the society has been in touch with the mother of the 19-year-old victim and learned that the woman and her mother are originally from India, according to the newspaper. 

Walk-in Oven

Her body was found in a walk-in oven, police said. Such large ovens, also known as cabinet or batch ovens, are often found in large-volume bakeries in places such as supermarkets and big-box stores.

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