Purchase of Own Securities

AstraZeneca PLC
03 March 2003

                    REPURCHASE OF SHARES IN ASTRAZENECA PLC





AstraZeneca PLC announces that on 28 February 2003, it purchased for
cancellation 375,000 ordinary shares of AstraZeneca PLC at a price of 1990 pence
per share. Upon the cancellation of these shares, the number of shares in issue
will be 1,717,431,329.







G H R Musker

Company Secretary

3 March 2003


                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange