Moscow, Nov 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti): A hitman, who killed the wrong person in 2009 before finally getting the right one six months later, has been arrested in Russian city of St. Petersburg.

He was held along with two accomplices, the regional department of the Russian investigative committee said Friday.

The department said Alibala Aliyev, Kamil Gurbanov and Zamin Isayev - all Azerbaijani nationals - have been arrested on two counts of pre-meditated murder.

"In March 2009 in Azerbaijan, a man named Mamedov, who was on a wanted list, ordered the murder of his fellow countryman" for no less than 300,000 rubles (about $9,500), the department said.

"Isayev supplied Aliyev and Gurbanov with firearms and ammunition to carry out the killing," it said.

According to investigators, in April 2009, Isayev brought Aliyev and Gurbanov to a St. Petersburg cafe where Aliyev fired three shots at an Azerbaijani national and he died later. But it turned out that the hitman had shot the wrong person.

But, six months later, in October, Aliyev shot dead the man Mamedov had actually intended.