Freetown - The Nigerian-led intervention force ECOMOG has captured the town of Makeni in northern Sierra Leone, where the forces of an ousted junta and their rebel allies had grouped after fleeing the capital last month. 'The opposing forces had fled the town ahead of ECOMOG advances,' said Fr Michael Conteh, a priest in the capital who is in radio contact with missionaries in Makeni. Fifty religious workers have been trapped there with dwindling supplies of food, water and medicine. They include Irish, Italians, Indians, Germans and Filipinos, as well as Sierra Leoneans.