Zimbabwe calls for extradition of dentist who killed Cecil the lion

Environment minister wants Walter Palmer to face trial for financing illegal hunt, as White House pressured to respond to petition seeking extradition

The Zimbabwean environment minister has called for the dentist who killed Cecil the lion to be extradited from the US to face trial for financing an illegal hunt.

Oppah Muchinguri told a news conference that Walter Palmer, 55, was a "foreign poacher" and said she understood Zimbabwe's prosecutor general had started the process to have him extradited.