Transaction in Own Shares

AstraZeneca PLC 17 August 2007 REPURCHASE OF SHARES IN ASTRAZENECA PLC AstraZeneca PLC announced that on 16 August 2007, it purchased for cancellation 1,048,161 ordinary shares of AstraZeneca PLC at a price of 2,284 pence per share. Some of these shares were purchased under the terms of the previously announced irrevocable, non-discretionary share repurchase programme for the period 2 July 2007 to 31 October 2007. Upon the cancellation of these shares, the number of shares in issue will be 1,484,425,401. G H R Musker Company Secretary 17 August 2007 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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