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Aid trickled to devastated villages in remote parts of Afghanistan on Friday but thousands of people remain with little food, shelter and water three days after the country’s deadliest earthquake in decades. Wednesday’s 5.9-magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged east along the border with Pakistan, as people slept, killing more than 1,000 and leaving thousands more homeless. Entire villages have been levelled in some of the worst affected districts, where survivors said they were even struggling to find equipment to bury their dead. “The tents, food and flour we have received for a few d…