Conflicting reports over killing of Cecil the lion’s ‘brother’

Cecil the lion is seen at Hwange National Parks. -Reuters filepic

JOHANNESBURG: Uncertainty surrounds the fate of another lion linked to Cecil, the beloved Zimbabwean lion slain by an American dentist whose killing caused a global outcry, after a conservation group reported that his “brother” Jericho had also been killed Saturday.

“It is with huge disgust and sadness that we have just been informed that Jericho, Cecil’s brother has been killed at 4pm today,” the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, which also broke the news of Cecil’s killing in the Hwange National Park, said in a statement on its Facebook page.