diff --git a/man/manual.md b/man/manual.md
index d8da119f388..1a4e4002f10 100644
--- a/man/manual.md
+++ b/man/manual.md
@@ -654,7 +654,21 @@ Or at the same line as the code:
         arr[10] = 0;  // cppcheck-suppress arrayIndexOutOfBounds
     }
 
-In this example there are 2 lines with code and 1 suppression comment. The suppression comment only applies to 1 line: `a = b + c;`.
+The suppression comment and the line of code may be separated by additional comments or empty lines:
+
+    void f() {
+        char arr[5];
+
+        // cppcheck-suppress arrayIndexOutOfBounds
+
+        arr[10] = 0;
+
+        // cppcheck-suppress arrayIndexOutOfBounds
+        // Set the tenth element of arr to zero
+        arr[10] = 0;
+    }
+
+In the example below there are 2 lines with code and 1 suppression comment. The suppression comment only applies to 1 line: `a = b + c;`.
 
     void f() {
         a = b + c; // cppcheck-suppress abc
diff --git a/test/testpreprocessor.cpp b/test/testpreprocessor.cpp
index f0885308c73..f38b61b8a66 100644
--- a/test/testpreprocessor.cpp
+++ b/test/testpreprocessor.cpp
@@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ class TestPreprocessor : public TestFixture {
 
         // inline suppression, missingInclude/missingIncludeSystem
         TEST_CASE(inline_suppressions);
+        TEST_CASE(inline_suppressions_not_next_line);
 
         // remark comment
         TEST_CASE(remarkComment1);
@@ -2030,6 +2031,38 @@ class TestPreprocessor : public TestFixture {
         ignore_errout(); // we are not interested in the output
     }
 
+    void inline_suppressions_not_next_line() {
+        const auto settings = dinit(Settings,
+                                    $.inlineSuppressions = true,
+                                        $.checks.enable (Checks::missingInclude));
+
+        const char code[] = "// cppcheck-suppress missingInclude\n"
+                            "// some other comment\n"
+                            "#include \"missing.h\"\n"
+                            "// cppcheck-suppress missingIncludeSystem\n"
+                            "\n" // Empty line
+                            "#include <missing2.h>\n";
+        SuppressionList inlineSuppr;
+        (void)getcodeforcfg(settings, *this, code, "", "test.c", &inlineSuppr);
+
+        auto suppressions = inlineSuppr.getSuppressions();
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(2, suppressions.size());
+
+        auto suppr = suppressions.front();
+        suppressions.pop_front();
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("missingInclude", suppr.errorId);
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("test.c", suppr.fileName);
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(3, suppr.lineNumber);
+
+        suppr = suppressions.front();
+        suppressions.pop_front();
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("missingIncludeSystem", suppr.errorId);
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("test.c", suppr.fileName);
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(6, suppr.lineNumber);
+
+        ignore_errout();
+    }
+
     void remarkComment1() {
         const char code[] = "// REMARK: assignment with 1\n"
                             "x=1;\n";