Divers searching for 18-year-old in Androscoggin River

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 27, 2026

The Maine Warden Service dive team is searching Saturday morning for an 18-year-old who is presumed to have drowned after falling into the Androscoggin River in Lewiston the night before. The warden service and Lewiston police and fire departments had searched for Siloe C. Irumva on Friday night with boats, along the shore and with drones. Latti said wardens are hampered by fluctuating water conditions on that section of the Androscoggin, which is between two dams. Irumva, of Lewiston, was fishing with friends near the Gulf Island Dam in Lewiston Friday night. He slipped on a rock shortly before 7:30 p.m. while trying to get a fishing lure untangled from a tree branch. Irumva fell into the water, was swept downstream by the current and went under.