US ends ocean search for missing sailors

The US Navy has identified one dead sailor and his nine missing compatriots following a collision at sea, as it ends the search for the men.

The US Navy has suspended its ocean search for sailors missing in a collision between a destroyer and an oil tanker.

It also on Thursday confirmed the identity of one sailor killed after the warship USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant vessel in waters near Singapore and Malaysia, and of nine missing sailors.

"After more than 80 hours of multinational search efforts, the US Navy suspended search and rescue efforts for missing USS John S. McCain sailors in an approximately 2100-square mile area east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore," the US Seventh Fleet said on its website.

US Navy and Marine Corps divers will continue search efforts inside flooded compartments in the ship for the missing sailors.