KERICHO, Kenya, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Looters in one of Kenya's major tea-growing areas in the Rift Valley struck Unilever's <ULVR.L> Chebown tea estate in a bout of post-election violence, causing workers at it and all the surrounding farms to flee.

A Reuters photographer at Unilever's Chebown tea estate said looters torched the farm's tractors and trucks, looted and burned its storage facility and tried to burn the tea plants, but were foiled by cold, moist weather. (Reporting by Thomas Mukoya; Editing by Charles Dick)

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