( CNN ) -- An American aid worker and her Afghan driver who were kidnapped in Afghanistan a month ago are feared dead , according to their aid group . Cyd Mizell had been working on projects designed to help women and families generate income . Meanwhile , two Polish soldiers in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed and one was injured by a roadside bomb , a military said Wednesday . Armed gunmen snatched Cyd Mizell and her driver , Muhammad Hadi , from a residential neighborhood in the southern Kandahar province on January 26 . In a statement on its Web site , Mizell 's organization -- the Asian Rural Life Foundation -- said it was `` deeply grieved to report the apparent deaths . '' `` Although we have no confirmation of their deaths , we have received information over the past few days indicating that our two aid workers have been killed , '' the statement said . The statement did not say what led the organization to believe that its employees had died . The Kandahar provincial authorities told CNN they could not confirm the report . A spokesman for the Afghanistan Interior Ministry said officials were investigating . `` We are trying to make sure whether it is true or not , '' said Zemarai Bashary . `` We can not confirm the death yet because our police do not have any reports regarding that she was killed . '' CNN was not able to reach foundation Director Jeff Palmer early Wednesday . And no one answered the phone at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul . Mizell , 50 , was born in California and grew up in Washington . She joined the foundation three years ago , and in that short time , learned to speak the local language fluently , Palmer has told CNN . The organization runs several projects in the Kandahar area , and also has a presence in about 12 other Asian countries . Mizell traveled around Kandahar in a burqa -- the traditional attire of some Afghan women that covers them from head to toe . At the time of her abduction , Mizell had been working on projects designed to help women and families generate income . She also taught English at a high school and embroidery lessons at a girl 's school , the organization said . `` She went to Afghanistan just as a real concern for the people and the turmoil within the country , and just as far as trying to reach out to women , '' friend Tony Rodgers of Acworth , Georgia , told CNN earlier . Rodgers said he had known Mizell for almost two decades . The driver who was kidnapped , Hadi , has been with the organization for two years . He is the father of five children , all under 15 . Soon after the abductions , some 500 to 600 Afghan women gathered at a wedding hall in Kandahar and implored government officials to find Mizell 's captors . No group has taken responsibility for the abductions . Early this month , Mizell 's father , George , issued an appeal to her kidnappers , pleading for his daughter 's release in a statement . `` I 'm confused why my daughter would be taken because she 's a gentle , caring , and respectful person , '' he said . `` When we talk to Cyd , she tells us about the friends she 's made and the kindness that 's been shown to her and of her desire to help them . '' While a spate of kidnappings have gripped Afghanistan recently -- including the abduction of 23 South Korean Christian aid workers and a German woman last year -- it was the first such abduction for the foundation . Two NATO soldiers killed . The deadly roadside bombing took place Tuesday in the Sharan district of Paktika province , along the rugged border with Pakistan . The wounded soldier is being treated at an ISAF medical facility . ISAF , or the International Security Assistance Force , is the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan . `` Our hearts and minds are with the family and other loved ones of the brave soldiers who died on patrol , '' said Brig . Gen. Carlos Branco , an ISAF spokesperson . `` These soldiers died honorably , helping bring security to Afghanistan . '' Since the conflict began in late 2001 , three Polish troops have died in Afghanistan . The bombing came as a prominent American politician said that the war in Iraq is distracting the United States from what 's happening along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border . Sen. Joe Biden , the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee , on Tuesday called the border region `` the most urgent need in the war on terror '' and `` a superhighway for extremists . '' The senator from Delaware just returned from Pakistan , where he and Sens . John Kerry , D-Massachusetts , and Chuck Hagel , R-Nebraska , observed the election and also traveled in Afghanistan , India and Turkey . `` The main message I bring back is that Afghanistan is the forgotten war and Pakistan is the neglected frontier , '' Biden said at a Capitol Hill news conference . `` Afghanistan is slipping toward failure because it has never been a priority , and it has to become one . '' E-mail to a friend . CNN 's Saeed Ahmed and journalist Farhad Peikar contributed to this report .
NEW : Aid group says it received information indicating that aid workers are dead . Cyd Williams and her husband were abducted in Kandahar province on January 26 . Roadside bomb kills two Polish soldiers in the Taliban - led forces , injures another .