NAIROBI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Police chasing protesters in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret fired tear gas into the emergency wing of the main hospital there on Thursday, striking a security guard, a hospital official said.

"The police wanted to force their way in and when the security officers restrained them, they fired teargas and hit a security officer on the nose and he fell down," said an official at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, who declined to be named. (Reporting by George Obulutsa, Writing by Bryson Hull)

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