Warden service finds body of teen who fell in Androscoggin River

SUN JOURNAL • June 27, 2026

The Maine Warden Service Dive Team on Saturday afternoon found the body of the 18-year old who drowned after falling into the Androscoggin River in Lewiston on Friday night. Siloe C. Irumva, of Lewiston, was fishing with friends near the Gulf Island Dam on the Androscoggin River along Switzerland Road in Lewiston at about 7:30 p.m. when he allegedly slipped on a rock while trying to detangle a fishing lure from a tree branch and fell into the water. The river’s current swept him downstream, submerging him underwater.