HSBC workers have been fired after they staged a beheading scene during a team-building day.

Six British bank staff members have been sacked after filming themselves staging a mock Islamic State-style execution during a team-building day out.

The Sun newspaper reports the HSBC workers were dressed in overalls and balaclavas at a go-karting centre when they staged a beheading scene.

Footage posted online showed five of them laughing and joking as a colleague in an orange jumpsuit knelt at their feet while one clutched a coat hanger used as a fake knife.

The paper said the eight-second film was shot as the workers were on an away day in Birmingham organised by HSBC, which described it as an abhorrent video.