By Rhea Mogul, CNN

(CNN) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first trip to the restive Kashmir region since April’s deadly tourist massacre, to inaugurate the world’s highest railway bridge.

His Friday visit to India-administered Kashmir comes weeks after a brief but deadly conflict between India and Pakistan. The nuclear-armed neighbors traded missiles, drones, and artillery shelling for four days after New Delhi blamed the massacre on its neighbor, which Pakistan denies.

Decades in the making, the arched Chenab Bridge sits 359 meters (about 1,180 feet) above the river of the same name – that’s 29 meters (over 95 feet) higher than the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Costing more than $160 million with a length of 1,315 meters (4,314 feet), the bridge is part of the first railwa

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