Son of Cecil the Lion is shot dead by a big game hunter two years after his father was killed

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The son of Cecil the Lion has been shot dead by a big game hunter - two years after his father was killed, it has emerged.

Xanda, a six-year-old male, was killed just outside Hwange National Park in north west Zimbabwe - near the spot where Cecil died two years ago.

Authorities were able to identify the animal - believed to be Cecil's oldest cub -because it had been fitted with an electronic tag.

American trophy-hunter Walter Palmer, from Minnesota, paid £45,000 to hunt and shoot Xanda's majestic father, easily recognisable by his black mane which helped make him Hwange's biggest tourist draw.