Two suspects have been arraigned in court in Zimbabwe over the alleged killing of an iconic lion at a park.

Local hunter THEO BRONKHORST and private game park owner HONEST NDLOVU are being prosecuted in Hwange, west of Harare.

The Zimbabwean suspects are alleged to have received a bribe of fifty thousand dollars by an American hunter who killed the lion, named CECIL.

The suspected ate being arraigned on poaching charges, while WALTER JAMES PALMER, who is a dentist from Minnesota, has also been accused by wildlife officials of killing the animal without a permit.

However; PALMER, who has already left Zimbabwe, claims ignorance about the law on hunting over the act he committed on first of July.