Police said early today that another body had been found in the carnage of the Clutha bar in Glasgow, taking the death toll to nine.

Emergency services are still working to recover bodies from the pub in Stockwell Street close to the city centre, and located another victim, the sixth in the pub to die. 

The civilian pilot and two police officers were killed when the police helicopter crashed into the building on Friday evening. Another 14 people are in hospital with serious injuries.

Police Scotland have so far named five of the victims.

Pilot David Traill, 51, police officer Kirsty Nelis, 36, and police officer Tony Collins, 43, were all on board the helicopter.

Gary Arthur, 48, from the Paisley area has also been named as a victim.

Early today. the police named the fifth fatality as Samuel McGhee, 56.

Police Scotland Chief Constable Sir Stephen House said both constables were members of the helicopter unit and had both previously been commended for acts of bravery.

He said: "It is with great sadness that I can confirm that the crew of the helicopter involved in this incident have all died. They were constable Tony Collins, constable Kirsty Nelis and the pilot captain Dave Traill.

"Kirsty and Tony were members of the Police Scotland operations support division. They were part of the helicopter unit.

"Captain Dave Traill had worked with the police for over four years and was very much a part of our team.

"I'd like to pay tribute to all of them and the work that they did over the years keeping people safe across Scotland.

"Both the officers involved had previously been commended by the police by bravery in different acts."

Sir Stephen said he "could not discount" the possibility that the death toll would rise.

"Until the helicopter is completely removed from the scene and the right people are in the premises and are able to look through the rubble completely and start to clear it, we cannot say about exact numbers," he said.

He praised the "awe-inspiring" professionalism and consideration of the emergency services at the scene.

"No-one will be putting pressure on them in terms of time but things are proceeding, we are making progress and I know that people want to be reassured of that.

"It may appear that it's not going as fast as people want. The answer is it's painstaking and it's important that everything there is treated with the courtesy and respect it deserves."

The helicopter had been on an operation and was returning to Glasgow at the time of the crash, he said.

A post on the Facebook page of Mr Traill's cousin Heather Lawson read: "RIP David Traill my lovely big cousin away far to soon xxx"

Many of Mrs Nelis' friends on the social networking site changed their profile pictures to a black square cut across by a thin blue line in remembrance.

Andrina Romano said: "For my beautiful friend Kirsty and all others involved. You will never be forgotten and I will miss you every day. Rip"

These are the only confirmed victims. However John McGarrigle, 38, said an eyewitness had told him that his father, also John McGarrigle, 59, had also been killed.

Police Scotland have said "extensive efforts" to recover the remaining bodies from the bar are continuing but "due to ongoing safety constraints this is likely to take some time".

A second body has been removed from the pub and work is underway to remove the helicopter from the site.

The Queen, Prince of of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, have expressed their condolences to those caught up in the tragedy, alongside Prime Minister David Cameron and First Minister Alex Salmond.

Witnesses said the Eurocopter EC135 T2 came down "like a stone" from the sky, hitting the roof of the Clutha when more than 100 people were inside the bar.

Police have launched a major investigation under the direction of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.

Members of the public formed a human chain to help remove those inside the popular music venue after the crash.

The area around the bar remains cordoned off.

Grace MacLean, inside the pub at the time of the crash, said it was busy with people listening to a ska band.

"We were all just having a nice time and then there was like a whoosh noise. There was no bang, there was no explosion. And then there was some smoke, what seemed like smoke," she told BBC News.

"The band were laughing and we were all joking that the band had made the roof come down.

"They carried on playing and then it started to come down more and someone started screaming and then the whole pub just filled with dust. You couldn't see anything. You couldn't breathe."

Nine-piece Glasgow ska band Esperanza were on stage when the helicopter hit the roof.

Writing on their Facebook page, the band said they were "waking up and realising that it is all definitely horribly real".

Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited some of those who were injured in Glasgow Royal Infirmary and said she felt humbled by the stories she had heard of off duty medical staff reporting for duty in the crash aftermath and members of the public queuing up to give blood the following morning.

She said: "This is still very raw for people in Glasgow, that rawness will subside... but there are going to be a lot of people with scars moving forward and that's when you're really going to see Glasgow come to its best."

Hospital staff had seven minutes warning people the injured arrived at emergency wards across Glasgow.

First Minister Alex Salmond said Scotland would recover from the tragedy.

He said: "The rescue and recovery operation at the Clutha continues and, as the Chief Constable has indicated, the area from which the helicopter is being removed is a confined one, but we must prepare ourselves for the possibility that there could be further fatalities to come.

"Tragedies do not define people, cities or countries. They are defined by how we respond, how we endure and how we recover. We have responded, we endure and Glasgow and Scotland will recover."