A 19-year-old Walmart employee was found dead in a bakery oven at a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The store remains closed, reports say.

A teenage Walmart employee has been found dead in a walk-in bakery oven, police have said. Detectives responded to calls of a ‘sudden death’ at a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia, around 9.30pm on Saturday, and found a deceased woman. Where in the store her body was found as not immediately disclosed.

Police in eastern Canada said the woman was discovered inside the store’s bakery department oven. The cause and manner of death are under investigation.