Uber CEO says he was 'wrong' to call murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi a 'serious mistake'

Dara Khosrowshahi has faced criticism over comments about Jamal Khashoggi (Mark Lennihan/AP)

Stephen Kalin

Uber's chief executive said on Monday the murder by Saudi Arabia, a major investor in his company, of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year could not be excused and that he was wrong to have described the killing as a "serious mistake".

Dara Khosrowshahi was backtracking from comments he made in an interview with "Axios on HBO" aired earlier in which he compared the Washington Post columnist's murder by Saudi agents inside the kingdom's Istanbul consulate to a fatality caused by one of his company's self-driving cars.