Dentist fingered as Cecil's killer

29 July 2015 - 02:09
By ©The Daily Telegraph

Cecil the lion - the most famous creature in one of Zimbabwe's national parks - was killed by an American hunter who has boasted about shooting a menagerie of animals with his bow and arrow. Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, is believed to have paid about R686,000 to shoot and kill the much-loved lion with a bow and arrow.

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