London, Jan. 7 - Looters in one of Kenya's major tea-growing areas have struck Unilever N.V.'s (UN) Chebown tea estate in a bout of post-election violence, causing workers at it and all the surrounding farms to flee, reports The Daily Telegraph Monday.
In the week since Mwai Kibaki was declared victor in the country's elections, Kenya's tea estates have become fields of death as supporters of defeated challenger Raila Odinga exact revenge on the president's Kikuyu people, the report says.
Managers at the Unilever estate said gangs of up to 600 youths armed with bows and arrows, machetes and axes had attacked in waves, killing and pillaging as they went, and at least 14 people had been killed on the company's plantations, the paper reported.