At least three Britons died in the Alps air crash that killed 150 people, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says.
The Airbus A320 crashed on Tuesday after an eight-minute rapid descent. There were no survivors.
Mr Hammond added: "We cannot rule out the possibility" that other British people were involved in the crash.
One UK resident, Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio from Manchester, was previously reported to have been on the flight with her baby son Julian.
Families of those from the UK known to have been killed have been contacted, said Mr Hammond.
Moments before Mr Hammond spoke, Germanwings and Lufthansa staff stood in silence in Cologne to honour the dead.
Further checks
More than 40 passengers were believed to be Spanish. The flight was also carrying citizens of Australia, Japan, Colombia, Turkey, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Officials believe 67 of the 144 passengers on the plane were German citizens, including 16 pupils returning from an exchange trip.
A day of mourning was being held at the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium school in Haltern-am-See, north-west Germany, where the pupils were from.
Marina Bandres came from Jaca in the Spanish Pyrenees, the town's mayor Victor Barrio said.
Ms Bandres, reportedly 37, had gone to Spain to attend a relative's funeral.
Mr Barrio said he did not know if Ms Bandres's husband was on the flight with her and son Julian, who is believed to have been seven or eight months old.
'Black box'
Offering "heartfelt condolences" to family and friends of those who died Mr Hammond said: "We currently believe that three British people have been killed in this tragedy, but we cannot rule out the possibility that there are further British people involved.
"The level of information on the flight manifest doesn't allow us to rule out that possibility until we've completed some further checks.
"We're also in contact with the French, German and Spanish authorities, and once we have a clearer picture, we'll make a further announcement"
Officials say that the plane's cockpit voice recorder has arrived in Paris for investigators to examine it.
The 'black box' is believed to be damaged but officials still hope to retrieve data from it.
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: "The black box is damaged and must be reconstituted in the coming hours in order to be usable."
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