HSBC workers sacked for staging mock Islamic State-style beheading during

Six bank workers have been sacked after filming a mock Islamic State-style execution during a team-building exercise.

Footage posted online showed five of them laughing and joking as a colleague in an orange jumpsuit, named as Saf Ahmed, knelt at their feet.

A spokesperson for HSBC told The Sun that those involved in this “abhorrent” video have been fired and that the bank doesn’t tolerate “inappropriate” behavior. The company apologized for any offence the video caused.

The employees filmed the video on an HSBC team-building day and published it on Instagram before deleting it, as reported by newspaper The Sun, which published screen shots of the clip.

One is holding what appears to be a coat hanger.

They even shouted phrases like “Allahu Akbar” in the eight-second video, according to the Sun newspaper report.

Kidnapped British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines were both wearing orange jumpsuits when they were beheaded in Syria by Isil.

It adds to a string of conduct problems at HSBC and other banks.

On the “Our Values” page of its website, HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver says: “By setting the highest standards of behaviour our aim is that all of our employees and customers can be proud of our business”.